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TIL All mammals have roughly the same lifespan at 1.5 billion heartbeats. An elephant lives longer than a mouse because it’s heart beats slower.

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9w8J7 TIL of Operation Bernhard when the nazis counterfeited £134 610 810 during WWII and damaged the British economy in the years afterward
6EEWX TIL that Salt Lake City planners made the city blocks way too big making intersection crossings dangerous for pedestrians so now they give them big ass flags to carry while they cross!
b7dZ TIL that romantic love lasts a year. After that ‘attachment love’ sets in
d6ed TIL studies have shown that dry counties have higher drunk driving fatalities than wet counties. Researchers believe that dry county residents will go to neighboring wet counties, get intoxicated, then have to drive back further while drunk.
56ar TIL That Lesotho, Papua New Guinea, and the United States are the only three countries not to mandate paid time off for new parents.