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TIL the world's largest human poo belonged to a Viking man in the 9th century and was on display in a British musuem. The massive turd was 20 cm in length and 5 cm in width, and was a result of the Viking man being sick as authorities found several hundred parasitic eggs in the poo.

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1aOYV TIL that the United States firebombed (i.e., dropped incendiary bombs on) not one, not two, but SIXTY-SEVEN cities in Japan during World War II. This list doesn't include the A-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
DBBJ TIL A guy named Joshua Abraham Norton declared himself Emperor of the United States and the citizens of San Francisco went along with it.
jBkM TIL that a male bee has no father and cannot have sons, but he has a grandfather and can have grandsons.
oBjW7 TIL that there's a stonehenge at the bottom of Lake Michigan
BrwZr TIL about the 1958 destruction of Ripple Rock, an underwater mountain in southwest British Columbia. It took three years to place over 1,000 tons of explosive in tunnels under the mountain, and it was one of the largest non-nuclear planned explosions on record.