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TIL Colin Hanks (Tom Hanks Son) owns a handkerchief company called Hanks Kerchiefs

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VmVD TIL: 867-5309 has been disabled as a working phone number in 95% of US area codes
Z8WeR TIL a googol is 10 raised to the hundredth power and a googolplex is 10 raised to the power of a googol.
R54dl TIL about Kitty Fisher, who was famous for simply for being famous. In one incident, she fell off her horse while riding and exposed herself. Broadsheets & prints mocked her, but she seized the attention for herself by having her portrait painted by England's most prominent painter.
OoQKY TIL Indian law says there should be a polling place within 2 km (1.25) of each citizen, so authorities have to set up a polling station in a lion infested forest for ONE MAN
XEa5r TIL there are 14,033 animals on the “least concern” list of endangerment and some of those animals numbers, like the Galah (species of parrot) are steadily increasing.