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TIL a full-grown person can eat 70 to 80 hot dogs in a 10-minute space before their body starts to shut down

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9w0mD TIL the US accidentally dropped four nuclear hydrogen bombs on Spain in 1966. Two of them partially detonated and one was lost for 2 months and a half.
KO69a TIL Netherlands is closing its jails because of prisoner shortage, they import prisoners from other countries to keep their prison machinery in order.
9YAg6 TIL that a Polish environmental charity put a SIM card in a GPS tracker to follow the migratory pattern of a white stork. They lost track of the stork and later received a phone bill for $2,700; someone in Sudan had taken the SIM from the tracker and made over 20 hours of calls.
D1aPr TIL that earth has had 5 mass extinctions, and we are currently in the 6th.
bnD7 TIL that every year in the greek town of Vrontados, two rival church congregations perform a “Rocket War” by firing tens of thousands of home-made rockets across town, with the objective of hitting the bell tower of the church of the other side.