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TIL the length of the great wall of China is 21,196 km, earth’s circumference is 40,075 km. so Great Wall of China goes half way around the world if it was in a straight line

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LYZQ TIL shortly after returning from the moon and leaving NASA, Buzz Aldrin had a failed career as an Air Force test pilot, started drinking, had an affair, suffered depression, got divorced, got re-married, got divorced again, and became a Cadillac salesman where he failed to sell a car for 6 months.
eOxb TIL that “Raven, a 6 year old chimpanzee, became the 22nd most successful money manager in the USA by throwing darts at a list of internet companies. Raven created her own index, dubbed MonkeyDex, and in 1999 delivered a 213% gain, outperforming more than 6,000 professional brokers on Wall Street.”
Lk5Jm TIL that tens of thousands of North Korean workers are estimated to be employed in Russian logging camps, where they reportedly have only two days of rest per year and face punishments for failures. Their salary is held in North Korean controlled accounts and most is kept by the regime.
YpdW TIL that, as Christopher Mintz-Plasse (McLovin) was only 17 when filming Superbad, his mother was required to be on set during the filming of his sex scene.
4Xgrw TIL about Cemetary Guns and Coffin Torpedoes. Flintlock devices placed inside coffins or rigged with trip wires on top of fresh graves in cemetaries in order to deter bodysnatchers from stealing fresh corpses for financial gain.