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TIL that the ‘fuel efficiency’ of walking is roughly equivalent to 360 miles per gallon.

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nwmY TIL the least common interracial pairing is between black women and white men, followed by white women and black men. The most likely interracial marriage is between Hispanics and non-Hispanics, followed by those between white men and Asian American women.
b6va4 TIL about the Camondo Stairs in Istanbul, Turkey which were built by Abraham Salomon Camondo in the 1870s. The stairway was constructed as a shortcut for his children to go to school and its hexagonal shape was designed to prevent his children from falling further down the steps in case they fell.
Vp7k TIL in 1969 Johnny Cash strolled into a recording session by Bob Dylan and they recorded almost an hour of duets, only one of which has ever been officially released.
xVwnD TIL of HMS Diamond Rock, which was commissioned as a Royal Navy warship despite being an uninhabited minor Caribbean island between Martinique and St. Lucia. Other British warships had to salute it when passing it.
VP7G TIL that 96 health groups accepted money from CocaCola/Pepsi to tell us that soda does not lead to obesity and health problems.