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TIL, Contrary to what I was taught in school - The Great Wall of China is NOT visible from the moon or space in general. At best, it is visible from the low orbits under very favorable weather conditions. Some other earthly structures, e.g., desert roads, have much higher visibility from space.

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ne4Ao TIL that scientists can get four football fields’ worth of skin (for burn victims) from a single baby’s foreskin.
OG4p7 TIL that in 2002 a strain of Cordyceps/Beauveria infected an immunocompromised woman in Germany despite the fungus being considered incapable of tolerating the temperature of the human body
xL1g TIL that the often-quoted factoid, “there are more people alive today than have ever died” is completely false. In fact, the living will probably never outnumber the dead.
j6A5R TIL that the Doors’ second manager, Danny Sugerman, began working with the Doors when he was just 12 years old, by answering their fan mail. Following the death of Jim Morrison in 1971, Sugerman replaced the original Doors’ manager, Bill Siddons, at just age 17.
16G8 TIL There’s a bullied special needs girl in Arizona being protected by her high school’s football team.