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TIL that the world’s first recipient of silicone breast implants went to the plastic surgeon just to get a tattoo removed and her ears done.

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R7bPa TIL the phenomenon where you see faces in things (i.e. "The Man On The Moon" or cars) is called Pareidolia
wLrxE TIL Manik Bandopadhyay is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th century Bengali literature. During a lifespan of 48 years, plagued simultaneously by illness and financial crisis, he produced 36 novels and nearly 250 short stories
1Djd TIL scientists believed that during the Inflationary Epoch, roughly 10^-36 seconds after the Big Bang, the universe expanded by a factor of at least 10^26 — 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, becoming the size of a grapefruit.
Wr69 TIL that “baby carrots” are almost all just regular carrots cut and reshaped to look like small carrots. It was a marketing gimmick.
wvJM TIL that 100 years ago with WW1 raging, Pres. Woodrow Wilson didn’t want America led by a “lame duck” if he lost re-election. So, if he lost, he planned to appoint his OPPONENT as Secretary of State (3rd in line of succession) and then resign along with his VP, making his opponent instant President.