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TIL unless it’s brewed through a paper filter, coffee can significantly raise cholesterol.

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R5dM8 TIL the world's largest shopping mall is in Iran. (Iran also has the 4th largest.) Kuwait has the second largest. China holds 3 spots in the top 10. The largest mall in the US, The Mall of America, is the twelfth largest worldwide.
1ErP TIL of Kim Gwang Suk, a North Korean gymnast who competed at the Barcelona Olympics; her age was given as 17, but she was missing her front teeth and may have been as young as 10. Aside from an Olympic torch relay, her subsequent life and whereabouts are unknown.
rRZae TIL the actor Vincent Price was a gourmet cook and once demonstrated how to poach a fish in a dishwasher on The Tonight Show.
p80yp TIL that one of Hitler's favourite engineers, Werner von Braun was a pioneer of rocket and space technology in the United States
1dAd TIL: Cables at the bottom of the ocean Transmit 99% of the world’s data. Sharks have bitten these cables before, meaning that the internet has suffered from literal SHARK ATTACKS.