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TIL After Rosanne Bar said Tom Arnold had a small penis, he replied “even a 747 looks small if it lands in the Grand Canyon”.

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Z9ND TIL North and South Korean armies choose their physically toughest looking soldiers to have a constant ongoing “stare down” across the Korean border to determine who is more powerful.
vyw7 TIL The US has used the children’s song “I Love You” by Barney the Purple Dinosaur as a form of torture in Guantanamo Bay
nmw9 TIL that the Doctor Who theme wasn’t performed on a theremin, but instead was created by the manipulation of an analog tape containing a recording of a single plucked string, white noise, and several oscillators.
6EQRX Til that the cargo hold of the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is one foot longer than the entire length of the first powered flight by the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk.
7rWOL TIL South Korea, in 1980, built a 322 foot tall flag pole overlooking the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing North and South Korea. In response, North Korea built a 525 foot tall flag pole opposite South Korea’s flagpole.