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TIL that we don't have 100,000km (60,000m) of blood vessels. It's actually around 9,000km to 19,000km

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mxQaY TIL that CFO Magazine stopped giving out its annual Excellence Awards in 2001 because the three previous winners had all gone to prison
x65mD TIL that Jacksonville, Florida is the largest city by area in the continental United States at 875 square miles and was named after General Andrew Jackson who never even visited Jacksonville ever
8eaAL TIL of the Mayerling Incident where Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, & his mistress, Mary Vetsera were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide in the woods on January 30th, 1889. This destabilisation led to successive developments like the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
6X6J TIL that the aliens from the movie franchise Alien were based off of deep sea creatures found in Earth’s oceans.
GQKN TIL during the Gold Rush, two stray dogs who were constantly seen together in downtown San Francisco became local sensations, with newspapers reporting on their activities, and enjoying an exemption from the extermination-on-sight city policy towards strays.