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TIL the normal human heart beats about 100,000 times per day and sends over 2,000 gallons of blood throughout the body daily.

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P1A0L TIL The 10 countries with the lowest GDP (PPP) per capita in Europe are the 10 post-communist countries.
7r78O TIL a fighter jet landed itself, undamaged, in a field in Montana after the pilot ejected when the plane went into a flat spin during training. The plane righted itself and flew away on its own. A farmer found the plane sitting perfectly in a field hours later with the engines still running.
jn9v TIL in 1951 a researcher discovered something never seen before. Cells from a woman named Henrietta Lacks could be kept alive and grown. 20 tons of her cells have been grown to date.
NX6VP TIL Ludwig van Beethoven, Vincent van Gogh, and Salvador Dali were each named after an older sibling who had died in infancy less than two years before they were born, a naming practice known as "necronym".
kOxoW TIL that there's a squirrel species with multicoloured fur that's endemic to India, and they can get up to 3 feet in length