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TIL the Grinch is microscopic in size compared to an elephant because he lives near the same Whoville featured in ‘Horton Hears a Who.’

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5RRk TIL that in Iceland it is common to carry alcohol openly outdoors, and to keep their hands warm and beverage cold, locals use a “beer mitten” that was invented by Icelanders.
yQmYw TIL that in McMinn County, Tennessee in 1946, WWII veterans successfully fought an armed rebellion against sheriff's deputies and local government officials who had been shooting and arresting voters in a desperate attempt to keep the local political machine in power against overwhelming opposition.
L9Md TIL that David Bowie holds the world record for number of music video plays over a 24-hour period with 51 million plays, occurring January 11th, 2016, the day after his death.
1aRv8 TIL that British doctors performed a covert study of the length of time chocolates last on nurses' stations in hospitals, published in the British Medical Journal. They found that the 'decay rate' of the chocolates follows an exponential decay pattern with a half-life of 99 minutes.
dWJj TIL: Only 388,000 slaves were brought to the U.S. One million went to Jamaica and nearly five million went to Brazil.