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TIL: An octopus has blue blood and three hearts
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TIL that there is a term related to the art of hotel toilet paper folding called “toilegami”. The reason for this hotel practice: “Hotels want to give their guests…confidence that the bathroom has been cleaned (so) the maid will fold over the last piece of toilet paper. It is subtle but effective”
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TIL that the top of Mount Chimborazo is farther from the Earth's center than Mount Everest
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TIL the infamous Great Seattle Fire of 1889 also killed 1 million rats, which completely eliminated the town's major rodent problem
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TIL That the Great Wall of China is also known as “The Longest Cemetary On Earth” because it is filled with bodies of the workers who died during its erection
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TIL that an asthmatic boy died in a severe asthma attack because the school forbid asthma inhalers; while the boy was dying, the inhalers sat in a safe at the principal’s office.