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TIL that Tila Tequila is a Nazi sympathizer

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OK66 TIL: Mt. Everest came out to exactly 29,000 feet, but they made it 29,002 because they thought people wouldn’t believe the actual number was real and would assume it was rounded.
LkAx0 TIL of Long-time Nuclear Waste Warning Messages. It's intended to deter any human intrusion in nuclear waste repositories 10000+ years in the future, and warn them in a way that's understandable to that civilization
lxGr TIL the grip of a sloth is so strong that sometimes when they die, they are found still clinging to the very branch they were lounging from when they were alive
8eYZ4 TIL Roman Emperor Diocletian was the first to voluntarily retire in 305 AD to grow cabbages. When begged to return to power, he declined, saying "If you could see the vegetables I grow with my own hands, you wouldn’t talk to me about empire." He lived out his days gardening by the Dalmatian coast
rmk4 TIL the phrase ‘laughing your head off’ originates from a public execution in 18th century England, when an audience platform next to the scaffold collapsed and killed twenty onlookers, to the amusement of the man about to have his head cut off.