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TIL that “no one has actually ever found a real pirate’s buried treasure map.”

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OLR7 TIL The atoms that make up your body are mostly empty space, and if you lost all your empty atomic space, your body would fit into a cube less than 1/500th of a centimetre on each side.
jO9M TIL at the 1956 Olympics, an Australian student successfully impersonated an Olympic torchbearer, handing the mayor of Sydney a painted chair leg topped with a pair of burning underwear in front of a crowd of thousands.
XZ5P TIL that Lina Medina, the world’s youngest mother who gave birth at the age of five in 1939 had started menstruating at three, developed breasts at four and broader hips by five. The biological father was never found and she is still alive today.
R7Kka TIL the California Highway Patrol are not known as CHiPs.
1n5O TIL the word ‘callipygian’ meaning 'having shapely buttocks’ or in modern day words ’ bootylicious’