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TIL the person who came up with the concept of a supermodel was the father of the lead singer of The Strokes

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O5QX TIL that TLC used to be an informative and instructional network focused on providing real education through the medium of television, distributed at no cost by NASA satellite.
V5EG TIL scientists didn’t discover a single male Blanket octopus until 2002 because they were looking at the wrong magnitude. Females can be up to 40,000 times more massive than males; the largest gender size discrepancy in the animal kingdom.
KW5a TIL that the French word for wooden shoe, ‘sabot’ is the probable root of the word sabotage: and refers to the tactic by early Dutch unionists of throwing sabots into the gears of factory or farm machinery, effectively stopping work until the equipment could be repaired.
11or TIL: The earth’s core is 2.5 years younger than the crust. Time dilation.
wo5K1 TIL Out of 138,000 American Soldiers buried overseas, 60,000 are buried in France, 25,000 are buried in the Philippines, 14,000 in Belgium, 12,000 in Italy, 8,000 in a Netherlands, 5,000 in Luxembourg, 5,000 in Panama. 1000’s more in England, Tunisia, Mexico.