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TIL That Rod Stewart has a giant model train set, spanning 1,500 square feet and based on postwar Manhattan, that took him two decades to build

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8aV1X TIL that former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il secretly studied English on the small island of Malta in the 1970s . His English teacher, Prof. Daniel Massa, said that he used to become irritable when hungry, especially when lessons overstepped their time limit and impinged on his lunch break.
ovrY TIL Bank of America paid no taxes in 2009, even though it made $4.4 billion income
a8WML TIL Larry Ellison founder of oracle owns 98% of the sixth biggest Hawaiian island, Lānaʻi
XEavj TIL Steven Spielberg's daughter is an adult-film actress.
1aYPd TIL that Placenta is a flat cake from ancient Greece and Rome consisting of many dough layers interspersed with a mixture of cheese and honey. It is flavoured with bay leaves, baked and then covered in honey. The temporary fœtal organ was named after this cake thanks to its flat round shape.