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TIL our heart pumps nearly 1.5 gallons of blood every minute, which could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool in under a year.

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VBRrm TIL Billionaire Peter Thiel paid $10 million to finance lawsuits against the media company Gawker, including the 2016 Hulk Hogan case that brought down the media company, as retaliation for an article outing him as gay in 2007.
N71OQ TIL of the Red Ghost, a camel that wandered the Arizona desert for 10 years with a human skeleton strapped to its back
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