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TIL There is a movie called “The Man with the Smallest Penis in Existence and the Electron Microscope Technician Who Loved Him” and it has a higher score on IMDB than the first Twilight movie

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EGP7 TIL Marcus Garvey suffered a non-fatal stroke, and a newspaper incorrectly wrote his obituary, which reported that he died “broke, alone, and unpopular.” After reading this, he suffered another stroke that killed him.
LMEQ TIL Bill Gates purchased the Codex Leicester, one of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook, for a whopping $30.8 million, and made it openly available on Windows Vista.
576R TIL that the number of sweat glands you have is directly related to the temperature you experienced as a baby
nEdo TIL a Stanford study found out of China, Japan, Korea, or the US, Japan had the LEAST nationalistic history textbooks, despite other claims you may read on Reddit.
8arZP TIL that the Leviathan of Parsonstown (aka. Rosse six-foot telescope) was the biggest telescope in the world until 1917 when the Hooker Telescope was constructed, he was built by William Parsons in County Offaly, Ireland and you can visit a reconstructed version of the telescope today