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TIL that Australia is wider than the moon!!!

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pZlN TIL Walt Disney’s mother, Flora Disney, died from a gas leak attributed to a faulty furnace that Walt had installed in the home he bought both parents. She was found collapsed in the bathroom; her husband fainted while trying to get her out.
E1rO0 TIL the Korean word for “Swiss army knife” is “maekgaibeo kal” which literally means “McGyver knife”
J1lLl TIL in 2012, over 2,000 Koreans gathered to watch a single man pitch a tent (a 24-man army tent) after he claimed on an internet forum that he could do it in under two hours. The event grew so large it even attracted corporate sponsers. The man succeeded, taking about an hour to accomplish the task.
ANlda TIL that model Evelyn Nesbit became known for her involvement in a feud between her husband Harry Thaw and infamous architect Stanford White who drugged and assaulted her at the age of 16, this led to Thaw murdering White inside Madison Square Garden II in the year 1906.
eY0E TIL In 2009, a US postal worker on disability was busted when she went on “The Price is Right” TV game show and was seen miraculously spinning the ‘Big Wheel’