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TIL from 1970 to 2015, The Sun published a picture of a topless female model on its page 3

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698gY TIL about the Doorway Effect, where the simple act of walking through a doorway (both physical and virtual) can cause us to forget what we were just doing.
e4VD TIL the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri has more shoreline than the coast of California
YpEQW TIL that soviets had nuclear tractors, aka Project Gamma Kolos, in an attempt to mutate wheat seeds before sowing them
e7vE TIL Stanley Kubrick was asked to direct Lord of the Rings, but he declined because he felt that the story was unfilmable.
E9mo TIL that humans and domesticated animals now outweigh all wild terrestrial vertebrates by an order of magnitude.