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TIL blue whales are so enormous that a human being could swim through their largest veins and arteries.

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YpeZr TIL that Electric Avenue was a serious song about broken dreams, inequality, and the 1981 riots in Brixton, UK; and not just a catchy tune from my youth.
ex76 TIL The Filipino flag is flown with the red stripe up in times of war and blue stripe up in times of peace.
4xoa TIL the Chinese have opened the highest and longest glass-bottom bridge in the world in an area known as the Avatar Mountains. The bridge spans 430 meters and is as much as 300 meters high.
PKn TIL Malcolm X dodged the draft by telling the enlisting officer that he couldn’t wait to “Steal us some guns, and kill us [some] crackers!”
vPNAB TIL that Pinky Promise started in early modern Japan (1600-), presumably from the older punishment of cutting fingers for friendly fire, and by the late 1800s it was common among children across different parts of the world