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TIL Space Jam is the highest grossing basketball movie

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vLXR TIL Canada is so big that Cape Spear, Newfoundland is closer to London than to Vancouver.
nWw8r TIL that the first hammer was invented 3.3 million years ago. It was made of a stone tied to a stick by strips of animal sinew.
LkZKQ TIL The first natural gas pipeline was in China before 500BC using bamboo pipes
VME7D TIL 80% of all historical marriages have been between 2nd cousins or closer
d8Gk8 TIL that the record for the most overdue library book is 288 years. The book was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge by Colonel Robert Walpole (England) in 1667–68 and returned in 1956.