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TIL you can calculate the radius of the Earth using just a stopwatch.

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9Yd4G TIL about Graham's Number: A number so large that it can't be written down because the universe it too small to contain the physical representation of it.
VgZm TIL a football player went to prison for five years on a phony rape charge. Upon his release she approached him saying “‘I will go through with helping you but it’s like at the same time all that money they gave [me] I don’t want to have to pay it back”
X0JBX TIL that the "Nuclear Gandhi" bug in Civilization 1 that made the AI super aggressive was just an urban legend and has been confirmed to not exist in the game.
66xY TIL tanning beds have been classified as a Class One carcinogen by the World Health Organization, the same as plutonium, and Brazil has banned tanning salons and the sale or purchase of tanning equipment outright. 30 US States have some restrictions.
awnWJ TIL that when the Kazakh shooting team won gold in an event in Kuwait, the band played the theme from Borat at the medal ceremony by mistake