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TIL the worlds largest shopping mall is located in Iran. Measuring at 21,000,000 sq ft.

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ORBL TIL the Black Death arrived in Norway on a ghost ship that just so happened become beached near a major port. Even tho all the crew had died the surviving rats and flees managed to spread the disease throughout the country and later to Sweeden and Russia.
eadJ TIL according to a Japanese poll in the year 2000, the Japanese believe that their best invention of the twentieth century was instant noodles.
xkko TIL The world is running low on Helium, which unless a new source is found, will be gone in 25-30 years.
neBg9 TIL Thomas Edison listened to the piano through his teeth. As he was completely deaf in one ear and could barely hear in the other he would chomp into the wood of the piano and absorb the sound waves into his skull.
BrA7d TIL asphalt is not only a naturally occurring substance (tar pits, oil sands, etc.), but is erupted from asphalt volcanoes, a rare type of submarine volcano. Some of these have formed seamounts, and a few are even still active today.