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TIL Rasputin's penis is a foot long and now resides in a museum in Petersburg

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woyQ7 TIL that Lincoln—a small city in Northern England—had the tallest building in the world, when the central spire of its cathedral was completed in the year 1311, at 160 metres tall.
9YjN7 TIL more than six billion different knot types have been identified by mathematicians and scientists since the 1800s.
yVPJl TIL about Marie-Marguerite Duplessis Radisson (c. 1718 – after 1740) an enslaved Pawnee woman who challenged her master’s authority over her. Although unsuccessful, she was among the first enslaved people in New France to succeed in even having their case be heard by a court. She did not go quietly.
R7eZa TIL Utah's Health Dept attempted to distribute free Utah-sex-jokes condoms with saying like "Enjoy your mountin'", "Explore Utah's Caves" and "Sl,UT" before the governor stepped in to stop the theme (but not the condom distribution).
8a4GG TIL that the Southern elephant seal is the largest member of the Order Carnivora