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TIL: The current estimated time that it would take to free fall to the center of the earth is 38 minutes and 11 seconds.

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XEG7R TIL The 1st ever jazz recording was offered to Freddie Keppard, but he refused: instead, that honour went to the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, an all-white band, who had a $million hit "Livery Stable Blues", which came from a song Keppard had performed.
rOR4 TIL that the Mirny diamond mine in Siberia is a hole in the ground so big, that the air space above it had to be declared off-limits after it kept sucking in helicopters that strayed to close to it.
xVJrD TIL about Pfeilstörche, storks who appeared in Europe with arrows stuck in their bodies. The arrows were from African hunters, providing proof of migration.
m7Go TIL Alec Guinness first thought Star Wars was “fairy tale rubbish”, but the film’s sense of moral good, and the studio’s doubling of his initial salary offer, appealed to him, and he agreed to take the part of Obi-Wan on the condition that he would not have to do any publicity to promote the film.
m1OWR TIL that Volleyball is estimated to be the sport with the second most participants in the world