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TIL that Tums are chalky because they’re literally made of chalk

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kJ5Mm TIL that Leonardo da Vinci was one of the first men to dissect Human and Animal corpses to study Anatomy and Nervous System.
Yp96Z TIL former Beatles member George Harrison released a song titled "Here Comes the Moon" as an unofficial sequel to the famous "Here Comes The Sun". He was on a trip in Hawaii watching a beautiful sunset when he turned around and was left in awe of the mesmerizing moon appearing in the night sky.
Y7GnB TIL that Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood comes from a community of Bargees (also known as "water gypsies"), and that his generation was the first to not be born on a boat
R5M44 TIL: Underwater bomb detectors can be used to track whale populations and in 2022 scientists used bomb detectors to uncover a new population of pygmy blue whales in the Indian Ocean
n9k9 TIL Google intends to scan all known existing 130 million books, totaling 4 billion digital pages and 2 trillion words and plans to have it finished by the end of the decade.