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Today I learned that on average, Mercury is the closest planet to ALL other planets.

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8lJG TIL That Beginner’s Luck actually has some basis behind it.
9wlAQ TIL there's a medical condition that causes its sufferers to sweat blood.
7Jo7 TIL a “micromort” is a unit given to the amount of times a person will die out of a million tries. For example, going skydiving is 9 micromorts, meaning that there is a 9/1,000,000 chance that a person will die after a trip.
6llm TIL A 6ft 7in man named Peter Freuchen escaped from almost certain blizzardly death by fashioning a shiv out of his own feces and digging his way out of his snowy grave. He also amputated his own toes, wrote 12 books, and won the 64,000 dollar show (that’s much more now with inflation).
Rvl6 TIL the person who wrote “The Internet is for Porn” also wrote “Let It Go.”