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TIL that the Pentagon was designed in a way that makes it possible to go from any one point to another within seven minutes.

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OYmL TIL that taking long hot showers is actually really bad for your skin, as the hot water softens the oils in your skin so that they are easily washed away, thus making it easier for your skin to dry out and become itchy.
ReVj TIL a sailor was the sole survivor of a shipwreck by hiding in an air bubble for over 60 hours until a body recovery dive team rescued him
kJJRB TIL that only 20 years after the Wright Brothers first flight, we had successfully completed the first air to air refueling in June 1923.
m5No TIL US Medium (M) shirts are larger than Extra Large (XL) Chinese shirts.
PY1pw "Snow leopards are relics of the ice ages, adapted to extreme cold, to blizzards and vertical slopes, and are rarely seen below 6,000 feet. Their pelts are smoky white with ashy rosettes. Their eyes, sliced by vertical feline pupils, are the color of hoar frost. Half of their six-foot-long bodies consists of a magnificent tail: a thick, furry balancing rod for a cat that can leap 30 feet through the air."