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TIL The longest English word takes three and a half hours to pronounce

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dnDr TIL: Moby Dick was so poorly received and reviewed it nearly bankrupted Herman Melville and sent him into a spiraling depression.
awRGL TIL Russell Crowe, a New Zealand actor and film producer, is the only non-Australian to be featured on an Australian stamp other than Queen Elizabeth II of England, and was featured twice. He has also been rejected in his bid to become an Australian citizen twice.
KLJQ TIL that NASA has a plan if astronauts “Lose It”, and that plan is to tie them up with duct tape.
N5vE TIL Tobey Maguire did 6 months of martial arts, weight training, and intensive gymnastics after the first Peter Parker scenes were shot in Spider-man 1 to shoot the rest of the transformation scene.
n88B TIL that Alan Eustacea computer scientist and Google’s Senior Vice President of Knowledge, broke Felix Baumgartner’s record for highest-altitude freefall jump at 25.74 miles.