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TIL The length of the Great Wall of China is more than half the circumference of the Earth

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gjDD TIL that the actual Navy pilot that flipped the bird at the MiG pilot in the movie Top Gun was Scott Altman, who later was selected an astronaut by NASA and flew on 4 Shuttle missions
RRvQ TIL there are 24 hours in a day because the Egyptians counted in base 12, not base 10 like we do today. They counted finger joints instead of fingers.
VRwZ TIL 15% of searches on Google each day have never been searched before.
e0oWg TIL Athlete, Marios Giannakou, Carried A Disabled Biology Student Named Eleftheria To The Top Of Mount Olympus, Her Dream
Wk8kA TIL that no significant nutritional differences exist between foods prepared by conventional and microwave methods.