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TIL days are gradually getting longer; the modern day is longer by about 1.7 milliseconds than a century ago.

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GYAO1 TIL there are no Starbucks in Italy
ne1EG TIL that in 2018, a woman in San Diego gave birth to a premature baby weighing only 8.6 ounces with a gestational age of only 23 weeks and 3 days. The baby is now perfectly healthy, making her the lightest birth-weight baby to ever survive.
e08A4 TIL of the “Rainbow Party” oral sex urban legend from the early 2000’s that made it as far as featuring on the Oprah Winfrey show
Oo8K1 TIL of Iron Mike, who was targeted by 5 men wanting to collect life insurance by staging his accidental death. Unaware of the plot, Mike unknowingly survived numerous attempts including ingesting rat poison, getting hit by a car, and sleeping outside in -14 °F (-26 °C) weather while soaked in water.
9YvnQ TIL In 1924, Harold Israel was a vagrant accused of the murder of a priest. All the evidence seemed to fit him, but in court, the prosecutor Homer Cummings logically tore the case against him to shreds and freed him. Years later, Homer contacted him to share money from a film deal based on the case.