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TIL that American woman have the biggest boobs in the world.

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e0o9J TIL that while dining out at Lord Harcourt's residence at Nuneham in 1848 William Buckland was shown a silver locket containing an object resembling pumice stone. He popped the object in his mouth, and swallowed it. It was in fact part of the mummified heart of Louis XIV of France.
QJaX6 TIL Tom Higgenson (from Plain White T) and Delilah know for the song "Hey There Delilah" were never together, when they met she had a boyfriend and she till does.
4Vyg TIL that traditional Japanese units of time were of unequal length, to accommodate the variation in daylight as the seasons changed. They also created mechanical clocks that varied in the same way.
6EMxl TIL why you paid more for your hard disk in 2012: after Saudi Arabian oil company Saudi Aramco was hit by targeted malware W32.DistTrack.Shamoon, its owners sent out the company's private airplane fleet abroad to purchase every available hard drive, causing their global shortage and price increase.
6wJl TIL that when Australia celebrated the 150th anniversary of the first European settlement in 1938, officials tried to hide the fact that it was a prison colony by using the terms “transportees” or “deportees” instead of “convicts”