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TIL that 27 out of the top 50 attractions of the world are in USA

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0Dkp TIL that the anecdote that says a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water if thrown in, but sit in a pot of water as it is slowly brought to a boil has been shown to be untrue by modern biologists.
vOm4 TIL Jack Bauer killed 268 people throughout the 24 series
REPQ TIL that there’s an hourglass in Budapest that takes a full year to run out. It takes four people almost an hour to turn it.
MNB0 TIL that if parents cleaned a dropped pacifier by sucking on it themselves before giving it back to their baby the child “had nearly 60 percent less eczema and 90 percent less asthma by 18 months compared to parents who used tap or boiling water.”
7rmJr TIL of beaked whales, a set of 22 species of whales with beaks like dolphins, some of which reach sizes of over 42 feet and which prey on colossal squid in the deep sea.