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TIL that every atom comprising your body would span 73 light years if consecutively stacked together

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yN7V TIL that Coco Chanel, famed fashion designer and feminine icon, was a homophobe, an anti-Semite and a Nazi collaborator
grWpW TIL The opening sequence in Raiders Of The Lost Ark was inspired by a Scrooge McDuck comic
7W0Z TIL - In the cold war, US, UK, FR intelligence deprived the Soviets in East German of Toilet paper so they would resort using official documents to wipe. Operation Tamarisk was great success.
oB5rR TIL Selwyn College, Cambridge has a swastika carved into one of its archways. It predates the Nazi Party