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TIL the president of the NAACP is a white guy.

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Zm64 TIL there exists a disorienting neurological condition called “Alice in Wonderland Syndrome”, whereby sufferers experience visual hallucinations of seeing things and people as smaller or larger than they actually are (“Lilliputian”).
59Np TIL the platypus used to be considered a myth like Bigfoot and the Yeti
VP94 TIL that Taco Bell failed to pay the men who pitched the idea of the Taco Bell Chihuahua and later were court ordered to pay $42.1 million dollars.
gMZR9 TIL The world's tallest man as of 2006 was asked to help remove plastic from a dolphin's stomach, and he succeeded by sticking his arm down the dolphins' esophagus and pulling out the plastic by hand
awP0L TIL: gliders were used to carry troops in WW2