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TIL Garth Brooks holds the record for having the most diamond-certified records, having 9 of them - more than Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd put together.

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4X1N5 TIL the whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is the champion among fish - it can reach a length of 13.5 m and a weight of 34 t! It is assumed that it can grow significantly more. It lives in the open waters of tropical oceans and it is rarely found in waters that have a temperature below 22 ° C.
loeVN TIL Before toilet paper was invented, Americans used to use corn cobs.Alternatively, they’d use periodicals like the Farmers Almanac, which was designed with a hole so it could hang in outhouses.
OG9DL TIL about the viscacha, they are two genuses of rodents in the chinchilla family that has convergently evolved to resemble rabbits.
BZpk TIL that catnip is 10 times as effective at repelling mosquitoes than DEET, the common ingredient in most bug sprays.
v1gD TIL Dexter Holland of The Offspring, was the high school valedictorian, received his Master’s in Molecular Biology, and took a 10-day solo flight around the world.