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TIL shooting stars (meteors) can often times be as small as a grain of sand

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4Bdw TIL that deep inside an abandoned mine 230’ below Pennsylvania 600 federal workers process truckloads of retirement paperwork by hand moving files to and from over 28,000 file cabinets, desk to desk, from cavern to cavern. The process works as slowly now as it did in 1977.
VMeb0 TIL the 2019 adult obesity rate of the USA's least obese state (Colorado; 23.8%) is comparable to the 2000 adult obesity rate of the most obese state (West Virginia; 23.9%).
nexoW TIL lots of mountains on earth are named after boobs e.g. Grand Tetons
JKP1 TIL that crows are amongst the most intelligent of birds, and are even capable of imitating human speech.
4bLw TIL that Canada Post receives millions of letters addressed to Santa Claus each year, with a special dedicated postal code, H0H 0H0. About 15,000 current and retired Canada Post employees respond to each letter received pretending to be Santa