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TIl that due to the Earth rotational bulge, the highest point on Earth is not Mt. Everest, but Chimborazo, Ecuador

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4XgnN TIL that if the Earth would begin falling towards the Sun, the whole journey would take about 65 days. It would take 41 days to cross the orbit of Venus, and on day 57, we'd cross the orbit of Mercury.
Ooole TIL when the HMS Sheffield and HMS Coventry were sunk by the Argentinian military during the Falklands war, the crew sang Monty Python's "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" whilst waiting for rescue- the song's line "worse things happen at sea, you know" being especially ironic.
N7bxP TIL "dolphins in the ocean" can swim "more than 50 miles an hour" with "little power input." "Research . . . appears to show that the dolphins do this by twitching their skin in such a way as to discourage the formation of turbulent vortices and turbulence which leads to drag and power dissipation."
a870Z TIL there is a 5,614km long fence in Australia to separate dingos from other animals in the country. It is called the dingo-fence and was built in the 1880s.
jNQOE TIL there are 6 Korean Female Pro Golfers who all share the same name, Jeongeun Lee. To prevent mixups and confusion, they have been named Lee1, Lee2, Lee3, Lee4, Lee5, and Lee6.