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TIL that the distance flew in the Berlin Airlift was almost the entire way from the Earth to the Sun, totalled over 92,000,000 miles (148,000,000 km).

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EgnrV TIL a group of folks in New Guinea used to not want worms consuming the remains of their deceased loved ones and so decided to eat the bodies themselves. They removed the brain, mixed it with ferns, and cooked it in bamboo tubes. They ate everything at the funerals except the gall bladders
XOK8 TIL whomever retrieved the head of Gaius Gracchus would be paid its weight in gold. The reward was never paid because the man who retrieved the head emptied out the brains and replaced them with molten lead.
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