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TIL In pre-colonial Nigeria there was a city with walls four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops

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dDL7j TIL the Titanic had an official mascot: a cat named Jenny, which gave birth to kittens one week before the ship began its maiden voyage. She lived in the ship's galley, was fed by the crew and did not survive the sinking.
9jKm TIL The USA is one of the last countries that hasn’t combined Boy and Girl Scouts.
yQBAX TIL Spreuerhofstraße is, according to Guinness World Records, the world's narrowest street, found in the city of Reutlingen, Germany. It ranges from 31 centimetres (12.2 in) at its narrowest to 50 centimetres (19.7 in) at its widest
vBOB TIL: The morning-after pill does not work for women that weigh over 170 lbs.
gMepL TIL Hanno the Navigator, an ancient Carthaginian from the 5th century BCE, was one of the first to record the discovery of what he described as "hairy, savage people". The local tribes called them Gorillai and viewed them as a type of human and were described as a type of man.