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TIL Australia has over 10,000 beaches. You could visit a new beach everyday for over 27 years!

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X0JN8 TIL; 1 out of every 50 people in the US has an unruptured brain aneurysm.
8BBV TIL: In 325 AD St. Nicholas lost it and slapped a fellow bishop at the Council of Nicaea.
N4ee TIL the way Dr. Seuss pronounced his name was that it rhymed with “voice”
PYPKw TIL that Stalin hired people to edit photographs throughout his reign. People who became his enemy were removed from every photograph pictured with him. Sometimes, Stalin would even insert himself in photos at key moments in history, or had technicians make him look taller in them.
KOGpa TIL in 1936, Cleveland lost the largest book in the world. The 'Golden Book of Cleveland' was 7 feet by 5 feet and 3 feet thick, with 6,000 pages — nearly the size of a queen-size bed. It weighed roughly 2.5 tons.