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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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7jnx TIL the pirate Hayreddin “Red beard” Barbarossa (1478-1546) was exiled from so many countries that he ended up starting his own country (Regency of Algiers) with the blessing of The Ottoman Empire which became present day Algeria, Tunisia and parts of Morocco.
4oPa TIL Dogs can see sadness in humans and often attempt to make their owners happy by initiating cuddling.
ReR7 TIL: After Lamb Chop’s Play-Along host Shari Lewis’ passing, her daughter began to perform with Lamb Chop to keep her character alive.
6EVWJ TIL there is a concrete dome in the Marshall Islands containing tonnes of nuclear waste the US left there during Cold War testing and there is a large risk of it leaking due to rising sea levels. Nothing is being done about this.
dDDar TIL SETI itself has maintained that "Contact (1997 film) is indescribably more accurate in its depiction of SETI than any Hollywood film in history."