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TIL that being able to sit down on the floor and stand up without using your hands or knees is used as a predictor of longevity.

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DQPNj TIL about Bob Jones University, a Christian university where students are only allowed to watch G-rated movies and rock music is banned
kJ8b4 TIL that In April of 1815, Mount Tambora exploded in a powerful eruption that killed tens of thousands of people on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa. The following year became known as the “year without a summer” when unusually cold, wet conditions swept across Europe and North America.
aygJ TIL if you can prove you had an ancestor that was Luxembourgish as of 1st of January 1900, you can get citizenship without ever having set foot in the country.
YpjLB TIL Sixty years ago a football match ground to a halt when unidentified flying objects were spotted above a stadium in Florence.
woMbY TIL: USSR used nuclear bomb to stop gas well blowout in Uzbekistan