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TIL Antarctica has 8 churches
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TIL the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship who sank in 2012, stated that he didn’t try to escape but rather “slipped off the ship when it turned over and fell into a lifeboat”.
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TIL that if you were able to fold a sheet of paper in half, over and over, after 103 folds that piece of paper would larger than the whole observable universe.
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TIL the Rivergate Tower is a 454ft tall skyscraper with 32 floors and is the sixth tallest building in Tampa, Florida USA and one of the tallest limestone buildings in the world. It was designed by architect Harry Wolf who based its measurements on the Fibonacci Series.
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TIL that female vampire bats are highly social, coordinating with a group of friends to find prey, and going as far as to share blood (by regurgitating it into each other's mouths). This circle of trust helps bats survive - a hungry bat can always take a "blood loan" from a bat that overfed.
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TIL of UK conservative MP Stephen Milligan who died in 1994 of auto-erotic asphyxiation. Milligan’s body was found naked wearing only stockings and suspenders, with an orange in his mouth.