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TIL The Great Ocean Road in Australia is the world's largest war memorial. It was built by returned soldiers between 1919 and 1932, and dedicated to soldiers killed during World War I

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6Ep8Q TIL: You cannot hum while holding your nose. There, just made you try!
l7M4N TIL about Idlirvirissong, a demon taking the form of a clown believed by the Inuit to live in the sky with her dogs. When the recently dead arrive, Idlirvirissong dances and feeds the intestines of those who laugh at the dance to the dogs.
j6L8Q TIL That in 1992, a man named William Brennan, a cashier, walked out of the Stardust Casino in Vegas with 500k+ in stolen cash and chips. He and the money were never found, and he was removed from the FBI's Most Wanted list in 2006 when Stardust was closed.
GAkM4 TIL happy hours are illegal in Indiana
7brx TIL that after the French Revolution, the scientific community implemented along with the metric system, metric time, which failed miserably due to the fact that people did not want to deviate from a 7 day week to a 10 day week.