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TIL that the Universe may exist inside a black hole.

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b99J9 TIL Africa has a miniature species of Antelope named the Dik-dik. Full grown adults stand only about a foot tall.
8a7GX TIL in the 1960's, The Catholic Church in Malta declared that voting for the Labour Party was a mortal sin, and voters were refused absolution, last rites and burial in sacred grounds, and sometimes were refused by employers
7WKM TIL that the Dutch have a word, “swaffelen,” or, as it was told to me, “zwaffelen,” for the act of smacking one’s penis repeatedly against an object.
L11Z TIL that the character Moe Szyslak in ‘The Simpsons’ is based on comedian Rick Hall.
lEMA TIL Bayer Pharmaceutical knowingly shipped out HIV-tainted blood transfusions to Hemophiliacs in countries such as France, Spain and Japan during the 1980s. They eventually paid millions out in lawsuits but no Bayer executive was ever charged with a crime.