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TIL that the rings of Saturn are only 30 to 300 feet thick.

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rRJG1 TIL that water is insignificant in our body and "drink 8-glasses of water a day" is a myth based on a 1945 psychological recommendation with no medical reference.
klbg TIL that from 2003 to 2008 over $40 Billions in cash was flown from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad. Now nobody knows what happened to the money.
jNZPv TIL the world’s largest populations of tigers exists not in the wild—but in captivity in the United States. With an estimated 5,000 tigers, the U.S. captive tiger population exceeds the approximately 3,200 tigers in the wild.
PQQO TIL during the Second World War, Rolex’s German founder let British POWs order any watch they liked, and then pay for it whenever they wanted to.
9w7BB TIL that the longest javelin throw was 99.52 meters using a now illegal technique that was considered "out of control". No one has broken this record with modern javelin rules.