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TIL You could fit all the planets of the Solar System between the Earth and the Moon

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eXR4 TIL Subway once had to settle a lawsuit with angry customers who had proved each ‘footlong’ sandwich was really only 11 inches in length. It cost the company over a half-million dollars in legal fees, and each plaintiff earned close to $1,000 each.
NZWM TIL there have been more deaths in Chicago from gang violence than troops killed in Afganistan since 2001.
PYQ9e TIL that after hearing Is This It by The Strokes, The Killers scrapped nearly all the songs they were working on, with the only exception being "Mr. Brightside"
5Ybkk TIL: Sperm whales can produce a sounds as loud as 230db, which is about 6db louder than the tsar bomba.
XEmLr TIL when Professor Robert Goddard proposed using rockets to send men to the moon the New York Times ran a scathing editorial questioning his credentials, his chair at Clark College and intelligence. In response to Apollo 11 they printed one of the most famous retractions in history.