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TIL that because radio waves travel faster than sound sound waves, if you stand at the base of Big Ben you can hear the chime on the radio before you hear it in real life.

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690em TIL that a professional grave robber in Cinncinati, Ohio who routinely sold corpses he had dug up to local medical schools once deliberately sold the body of someone who had died of smallpox to a school in order to infect medical students there who had played a trick on him.
QJL5d TIL that Patrick Stewart hated having pet fish in Picard's ready room on TNG, considering it an affront to a show that valued the dignity of different species
11MD TIL Rollercoaster loops are never circular, but instead, are designed with an upside down “teardrop” shape. This is because perfectly circular loops will subject riders to up to 6Gs of g-force, causing them to get injured.
1x7 TIL there is a group of redditors trying to purchase an island
KN59 TIL in the 1980s, India released 25,000 flesh-eating turtles into the Ganges river in an attempt to clean up corpse-pollution. The turtles were raised on dead fish so they wouldn’t develop a taste for the living, as they ate mostly everything. The $32M plan failed due to corruption and mismanagement