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TIL that an average person’s yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.

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abnA TIL that the brain receives 20% of the body’s total oxygen consumption, despite only representing 2% of the body’s total weight
D1mvJ TIL that there is enough DNA in the average person’s body to stretch from the Sun to Pluto and back — 17 times
GAYZ4 TIL the first stop motion puppet film - The beautiful Leukanida (Film) from 1912 - was created by posing dead insects instead of using hand crafted puppets.
ARwd TIL not a single cactus grows in the Sahara, as cacti are native only to the Americas.
8eYkL TIL in Dec 1943, the B-24 Leon Crane was copiloting experienced engine failure & crashed into an Alaskan mountaintop. He was the only survivor of the 5 crew after he managed to bail in time. He then survived 84 days in the wilderness starting with only some matches, a Boy Scout knife & his parachute