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TIL: some people still believe earth is flat, and that earth is a disc encased by antarctica and a 150 foot wall of ice at the edge, guarded by NASA employed security guards.

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P4Yg TIL Dove once ran a “Natural beauty” campaign which centered around “real” looking women. It turned out all of the women in this ad series had been Photoshopped.
Egylp TIL that Babe Ruth, at the age of 40, hit his 714th and final home run over 500 feet, clearing Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field’s triple deck, and bouncing off a nearby resident’s roof
AEN7 TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger’s parents thought he was gay because his bedroom walls were covered with posters of men.
VMRVZ TIL that Hotmail used to be written HoTMaiL because it was designed to include the letters HTML.
ONVa TIL The United States attempted to buy Greenland in 1946 for $100,000,000 ($1.3 billion today).