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TIL that more than two dozen large ships sink or go missing every year.

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E1Eao TIL that the show Scrubs has one of the most accurate portrayals of the actual way a hospital runs and all of its medical cases are taken from real life medical cases.
Y7BG TIL: There is a game called Desert Bus. The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a maximum speed of 45mph. The feat requires 8 hours of continuous play to complete, since the game cannot be paused.
wLd0E TIL that a truck in Norway carrying 27 tonnes of Brunost (a delicacy cheese) caught fire in a tunnel. Due to the high fat and sugar content, the fire raged for 5 days and caused significant damage to the tunnel, requiring several months to repair it
GA7e5 TIL about Def Jam Rapstar, a 2010 rap karaoke game that caused its developers to be sued for 8 million dollars because it did not get the rights to the songs in the game.
nWGVG TIL it's humanly impossible to fold a piece of standard notebook paper in half more than 7 times. But if you were able to fold it 26 times, the thickness would near the height of Mount Everest (6,710 meters).