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TIL it is illegal to run out of gas on the Autobahn

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x6gJ1 TIL that sharpshooter Annie Oakley once shot a cigarette out of Kaiser Wilhelm II’s mouth during a performance in Germany.
1XwV TIL that there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
epMPn TIL that the number of 100,000 km for the length of human blood vessels used some VERY generous assumptions, and that it is actually around 9,000 to 19,000 km.
61jm TIL that there was a now extinct species of crocodile that could gallop.
nVjd TIL that during the Cold War, the USSR was able to tell a Soviet passport was a forgery because the staples in real passports would corrode due to the poor quality of metal.