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TIL time was divided into seconds and minutes and the circle into three hundred sixty degrees by the same society that invented written language and the wheel.

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x68dD TIL of "Snowzilla", a giant snowman that was erected annually each Christmas season from 2005 to 2013, and again in 2023, by Billy Powers and other local residents of Anchorage, Alaska. Originally 16 feet tall, "Snowzilla" grew to 22 feet tall in 2006, and 25 feet tall in 2008.
Nv08 TIL that King Tut’s penis was mummified while erect
R5VvQ TIL George Michael's ''A different Corner" was the first British No.1 hit song on UK chart that an artist wrote, sang, arranged, produced, and played all the instruments on the song all by himself.
mxndy TIL that, when Dan Aykroyd was developing Crystal Head Vodka, he thought there would be a trademark conflict with "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", a meeting between Aykroyd and director Steven Spielberg resulted in the drink being served at the movie's premiere
PYnWZ TIL about Polyandry, a form of polygamy in which a woman takes two or more husbands at the same time. One example of polyandry is in the Himalayan mountains, due to the scarcity of land. The marriage of all brothers in a family to the same wife allows family land to remain intact and undivided.