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TIL, Ming the clam lived to be 507 years old.

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DQDvv TIL about the Graham's number. It is so large that the observable universe is far too small to contain an ordinary digital representation of Graham's number, assuming that each digit occupies one Planck volume, the smallest measurable space. The last 13 digits are ...7262464195387
mw5o TIL London is riddled with dozens of ‘Plague Pits’ of the victims of the Bubonic Plague. Some pits are so thick with bodies it was impossible to drill through the mass of skeletal remains during construction of the Tube
mxb8x TIL that 65% of the world drinks goat milk over cow milk.
yV7dM TIL: There was an Australian version of the old Superman radio serial from the 40s.
N7ekJ TIL the US Supreme Court ruled “Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an arresting officer's life if necessary.”