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TIL the average height of Japanese men between 1602 and 1867 is estimated at only 5 feet 1 inch.

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8av48 TIL of "chicken shit bingo", a weekly event at the Little Longhorn Saloon in Austin Texas. Participants purchase a ticket which corresponds to a random number on the table. If the chicken poops on your number you win a cash prize.
X0VE TIL that bungie has a security guard that uses a gravity hammer as a weapon to guard their front door
78V1b TIL Gary Larson (Far Side cartoonist), has a species of chewing lice named after him, Strigiphilus Garylarsoni
NXgoQ TIL there's a lake in South Carolina called“Alcohol And Drug Abuse Lake”
ZpZxB TIL in 1905, American millionaire George Kessler threw himself a birthday party at the Savoy Hotel in London that involved flooding the entire courtyard with four feet of water so his guests could dine in gondolas and a five foot birthday cake brought out to them on the back of a baby elephant.