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TIL People Used the Postal Service to Mail Their Children

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GMjJ TIL: North Koreans have the smallest penis size when sorted by country
OLvY TIL that, according to Article VIII of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, you can be arrested for a crime committed anywhere in the known universe
VJ04 TIL new research indicates the asteroid that killed the Dinosaurs did so, not primarily due to dust blocking out the sun, but by ejecting ~500 cubic miles of tiny glass spherules at near escape velocity. Upon falling to earth they incinerated nearly all surface life in a matter of minutes.
ErW TIL that sometime around 2000, the child labor laws changed in the UK in order to film the movie “Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone”
BByK TIL 26.5 million Canadians tuned into the gold medal final in men’s hockey during the 2010 Winter Olympics. That’s 80% of the entire country’s population.