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TIL there are only 2 escalators in the entire state of Wyoming

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xONw TIL according to a lawsuit filed against medical clinics and physicians who performed his colonoscopy, a man claims he had left his phone on ‘record’ and caught staff mocking him the second he went under, making fun of his penis, threatening to fire a gun up his rectum, and more
l7aNA TIL Finland's territory is expanding by 7 km^2 every year even without war. This is due to the effect of 'post-glacial rebound'.
d8LMK TIL: Blood types evolved over time with A being the oldest in pre-humans and with B, O, and AB evolving starting about 5 million years ago.
NN4J TIL that ABBA member Anni-Frid Lyngstad was a survivor of Nazi Germany’s Lebensborn program, an attempt to selectively “breed” more children with “racially desirable” traits.
xVKbb TIL soldiers in the elite Grenadier Guards never say "yes". This is because the word is redundant as the alternative is "no" and a Guardsman never says "no" to an order. They simply say "sir"