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TIL The International Space Station is 357 feet end-to-end? That’s almost the same length as a football field, including both end zones.

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d6pr TIL that in China, more than 30 million people live in caves. Also that in the stone age there were only 5 million people on the earth, meaning that there are more cavemen now than there have ever been.
7dBx TIL that fans reacted badly to Arthur Conan Doyle killing off Sherlock Holmes. It was front-page news around the world; 20,000 people cancelled subscriptions to ‘Strand’ magazine and sent hate mail; thousands wrote to the author begging him to undo the death. Doyle resurrected Holmes a decade later.
d8No8 TIL two men paid €1.5 million in counterfeit money for a painting, only to find out that the painting was fake.
M7BLa TIL a Boeing 747 uses ~4 litres (~1 gallon) of fuel every second
7rZZ7 TIL that Tarrare, a man living in the 1700s, had an endless appetite due to unknown causes. In one case, he ate 15 meals in a single sitting, and his endless hunger led him, while in a hospital, to eat piles of garbage, as well as trying to drink other patients blood and eat corpses from the morgue.