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TIL that all mammals, from mice to whales, have roughly the same number of heartbeats in a lifetime: 1 billion.

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wolJ TIL that Mother Teresa did not administer painkillers to those infirmed in her homes for the dying (one could “hear the screams of people having maggots tweezered from their open wounds without pain relief”), believing that pain brought them closer to Christ.
R54V8 TIL That while Kmart in the US is all but dead, with only 1 traditional store remaining, Kmart Australia is wildly popular with nearly 300 locations.
E1lGd TIL the Veery, a small bird in the Thrush family, is better at predicting upcoming Atlantic hurricane seasons than our best meteorological models.
e0kmL TIL: The first death in WWII was Franciszek Honiok, a German of Polish descent. The Gestapo murdered him and left his body at a radio station that the Gestapo, dressed in Polish uniforms, attacked. The body helped "prove" Polish aggression to justify the Nazi's invasion of Poland the next day.
loWKK TIL a Confederate soldier named John Stith Pemberton got stabbed in the chest in battle, and afterwards became hooked on morphine. He was working on a cure for his painkiller addiction when he accidentally mixed it with carbonated water and invented Coca-Cola.