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pYJQA TIL the current world record for memorising a deck of cards and reciting it fully is 12.74 seconds
wLX1 TIL A 9 year old pledge to donate money oh her birthday instead of receiving presents. She didn’t reach her goal. A year later she passed away and her story made people donate $1.2 million which helped change the lives of over 60,000 people in Ethiopia.
OGabX TIL hippos have a reflex mechanism that allows them to pop up, take a breath, and go back down without waking up so they can sleep underwater.
4Xwlo Til that 2020 is the end of the decade instead of 2019 because the Gregorian calendar starts at 1, and there is no year zero.
1aMZW Today I Learned that in Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), pilot Wedge Antilles was played by three people. The first actor (Colin Higgins) was fired after one day on set, and the second actor (Denis Lawson) had a bad accent so a third actor (David Ankrum) dubbed all of Wedge's lines.