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TIL 1 Millihelen is the amount of beauty required to launch a single ship.

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kLke TIL There is An Annual Wife-Carrying Contest in Finland called Eukankanto, Where The Reward is The Wife’s Weight in Beer
e05wb TIL that the moon is slowly drifting away from the earth at the rate of 3.8cm (about 1.5 inches) per year.
nWdnG TIL Napoleon Hill, who wrote Think and Grow Rich, was a lifelong scammer. He lied about meeting Andrew Carnegie, never advised any presidents, and even inspired a cult that tried to raise an immortal baby. His whole career was built on fake stories, fraud, and constant reinvention.
b1eE TIL An American Airforce Sergeant found a dead General while he was on his way to work at area 25, a nuclear test area in Nevada. It turns out the General had ejected while flying a captured Russian Mig at Mach 2. The force of the air at that speed instantly snapped his neck and killed him.
pYYMA TIL that after a thief stole the Lone Ranger's custom Pearl Handled Colt Pistols from the actor Clayton Moore's luggage, he was caught by the police and sentenced to one month in jail and 600 hours of shoveling horse manure at the police stables.