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TIL that it would take ~18months to walk the Great Wall of China 🇨🇳

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9R16 TIL that if you bend your middle finger under your palm on the table, you can lift the thumb, index, and little finger, but it is impossible to lift your ring finger. This is because the tendons in all fingers are independent, except those on the middle and ring finger.
GAJ8g TIL about Yoko Ono's film "Self-Portrait" (1969). It consists of a 42-minute shot of her husband John Lennon's semi-erect penis. At the end, a drop of semen comes out. The film was never reshown after its initial screening.
6XWX TIL, after winning one of the most famous dogfights of WWII, a Japanese fighter pilot managed to fly over 4 hours back to base despite being blind and paralyzed down the entire left side of his body from enemy fire; he endured and survived emergency surgery without anesthesia immediately afterward.
G94g TIL The guy in Black Ops 2, Savimbi, was a real person and never stopped fighting until his death in 2002.
rN5BW TIL that only Australians do the dance to Tina Turner's Nutbush City Limits.