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TIL that “point blank range” doesn’t inherently mean “close range”.

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xrV1 TIL that flipping a coin isn’t actually 50/50, but rather 51/49 biased for the side that was facing up when flipped. Also, when spinning a penny, tails will face up 80% of the time
M7eg0 TIL there was a french guy named Tarrare who was known for having a insatiable hunger, so much so that he would eat live cats, fight dogs over hospital trash, and even be able to eat his own weight worth of food. He also was able to swallow whole snakes and eels without chewing.
xXg0 TIL that in 1973, a drunk driver struck and killed the world’s most isolated tree, in the middle of the Sahara desert
R4G8 TIL of a 5064 year old pine tree in California, the oldest living individual tree known in the world, whose exact location is kept secret. It was alive while Stonehenge was under construction and around the time that humans developed their first writing system.
08VR TIL that Sara Blakely, the inventor of Spanx, is the world’s youngest self made female billionaire and the first woman to sign the Giving Pledge, committing to give over half of her wealth to philanthropy.