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TIL in 1806 the fattest man in the world fought a bear in the streets of Leicester.

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nNGW TIL that Queen Victoria hated being pregnant, viewed breast-feeding with disgust, and thought newborn babies were ugly.
oRmDL TIL there was a quite a few cases of heavily insured airplane passengers blowing themselves up in the 50s/60s.
neG77 TIL India And China Have A "Border Clash" Every So Often That Is More Of A Bro Off Than An Armed Conflict
Zpl4a Today I learned that the FTC is investigating oil company collusion that caused much of the inflation seen in the US and much of the rest of the world since 2021.
gMQab TIL "Comrade Kim goes Flying" is North Korea’s first “girl power” movie and it was screened at numerous film festivals in 2014. The story of coal miner, her dream of becoming a trapeze artist is crushed by an arrogant trapeze star who believes miners belong underground and not in the air