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TIL that a man’s investments were prevented from growing to their full extent out of fear that they would exceed the value of the world.

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oBKEr TIL a picture of Brock Turner's face was once used as the definition of "rape" in a Criminology textbook.
neRkP TIL that an acoustic piano has a tension string of almost 20 tons, because it has over 230 strings, and each string is under a tension of almost 90 kg (do the math). Because of this the piano is so heavy: because its iron-cast frame to withstand that tension.
a8AXM Til that prior to becoming President, Gerald Ford called for a thorough investigation of UFO sightings in Michigan and was critical of the multiple claims being dismissed as originating from "swamp gas"
WKvX TIL that in 2013, 9 American babies were named ‘Cheese’
mxk9E TIL that Queen Anne of England was pregnant 17 times. The first time at the age of eighteen, and the last at the age of thirty-four. She either miscarried or gave birth to stillborn babies. One child died under a year, another at a year and a half, and the oldest died at the age of eleven in 1700.