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TIL that body hair doesn’t stop growing at a certain length; it just lives a shorter life and falls out before the hair on your head.

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RKd6 TIL Diamonds are actually fairly common. The reason they are worth so much is because the DeBeers mining group withholds stock to artificially reduce supply.
x5XB TIL the world may run out of chocolate by 2020
awlr0 TIL that Jar of Flies by Alice In Chains was the first EP to ever debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The feat would not be repeated for another 10 years, when the Jay-Z/Linkin Park Collision Course EP did it.
v1DWB TIL India has the majority of the world's wild tigers, nearly 3,000 in 2019. The Bengal tiger serves as one of India's national animals.
BgZPy TIL the village built for the 1980 movie Popeye still exists and is a tourist attraction in Malta.