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TIL The sun will never set on the present-day British Empire, due to the smallest and most isolated of the 14 territories, the Pitcairn Islands, which only has a population of a few dozen people. Until there is an eclipse there, Britain remains the empire on which the sun never sets.

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OGAMR TIL: In China, Mei Nü, or "Nowhere girls" refer to women who have money, no job, no education, no prospects, no looks, no friends, and no sophistication. The causes have linked to familial trauma or over pampering and spoiled leading to difficulties finding employment.
m1nAx TIL that a crocodile reached 39 feet in length. Sarcosuchus (nicknamed "SuperCroc") had a jaw so powerful that it could crush bone, which the animal used to hunt dinosaurs and other prey much larger than itself. SuperCroc weighed 8 tons, equal to two adult elephants, but went extinct with dinosaurs.
aw0JJ TIL during the manhattan project Albert Stevens was injected with plutonium without his knowledge or explicit consent. He survived over 20 years, accumulating a total radiation dose of 64 Sv - the highest known in any human being.
g5R7 TIL Until the late 1400s the word ‘girl’ just meant a child of either sex. If you had to differentiate between them, male children were referred to as 'knave girls’ and females were 'gay girls’. Equally, a boy could be called a 'knave child’ and a girl a 'maiden child’.
b6MW4 TIL of Captain Citrus, a fictional mascot based on Captain America from the Florida Department of Citrus, a state body tasked with promoting Florida's orange industry. Created in 2011 as "Ollie the Orange", Florida paid Marvel around $1 million in 2014 to redesign and publicly promote the character.