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TIL All of the platinum ever mined could fit inside the average person’s living room

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4XKNR TIL that the Oxford English Dictionary has included the informal use of the word "literally" in its official definition since 2011, and that use of the word "literally" to mean "figuratively" has been documented as far back as 250 years.
Ywed TIL a domestic sheep’s wool will just keep growing and growing forever, if humans don’t cut it off
69LOW TIL There is archaeological evidence that Vikings reached Baghdad, the centre of the Islamic Empire.
0w4yA TIL of Béla Kiss, a Hungarian serial killer who killed and drank the blood of 24 people. He also pickled their corpses in alcohol and stored them in metal drums. He escaped arrest and was allegedly sighted in New York in 1932 working as a janitor.
PoXJ TIL Hitler had an Irish nephew called William Patrick Hitler. He thought Adolf was a perverted madman and after emigrating from Ireland to the US he ended up enlisting to fight against his uncle in the medical corps