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TIL that the rainiest place on Earth is Mawsynram in northeastern India. It receives a whopping 12000 mm of rain per year (for comparison, Cardiff, Wales gets 1150mm).

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p0X4 TIL Andre the Giant’s physique was due to acromegaly, a treatable (and often reversible) gland disease that causes constant secretion of growth hormone. Despite doctors and friends begging him to have surgery, he refused: “If this is the size that God wanted me to be, I’m going to be this size.”
OoB4L TIL animals would face trial and execution if they killed humans in medieval times. The state would even pay the costs of a lawyer for the animals.
Q75M TIL Big steel vessels have a magnetic signature, due to the polarity of electrons lining up to the earths magnetic field when the steel was heated in manufacture through welding etc, and can be used to locate where the vessel was made.
pOgp TIL Serial killer/Cannibal Nathaniel Bar-Jonah after one of his victims disappearance,started to hold cookouts in which he served burgers,chilli and etc to guests.His response was that he had went deer hunting.He did not own a rifle, a hunting license, nor had he been deer hunting at any time.
PY6ZZ TIL that the unit of measurement for sausage casing is "by the hank". (1 hank = 91 meters)