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TIL that more people have been in space than have sailed non-stop around the world.

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XEExD Short answer: Do bears poop in the woods?
OoRA6 TIL that Abe Lincoln won the 1860 election while NOT being on the presidential ballot in 10 Southern states.
VBVrm TIL a week before Eminem's album The Eminem Show (2002) was released, it was the second-most played CD on computers, the highest ranking ever for an unreleased title.
5YbAQ TIL that there is an Australian pine growing out of an old railroad bridge in the Florida Keys named Fred the Tree. Fred survives with salt spray, lots of sunshine, and no apparent soil. Fred even withstood Hurricane Irma!
XW1j TIL that between 2010-2015, the life expectancy in Botswana, due to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, dropped from 70.7 years to only 31.6 years.