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XE7pR TIL South Korean women have gained 8 inches (20 cm) in height, on average, in the past century — a jump bigger than any other population in the world
woYN7 TIL: my rear ends’ circumference is the length of 9/10ths of Danny Devito
KOpR6 TIL in the Sellafield nuclear power plant there is an industrial freezer packed with an expanding mountain of radioactive seagulls that were shot by snipers employed by the plant
6yn7 TIL there is an office in Beijing that can literally control the weather
v1PDj TIL the 2016 Indian banknote demonetisation, the biggest economic policy of its kind in recent history, which scrapped 500 and 1000 Rupee notes overnight to curtail corruption and illicit cash, failed to achieve its stated goals and let to a dip in GDP.