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TIL: Australia is wider than the moon.

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gwRD TIL For a Japanese reality show a man was challenged to stay in an apartment alone with no clothes and hundreds of magazines to see if he could live off of sweepstakes winnings until he amounted one million yen in value. He was there for 335 days.
b6Gx4 TIL that Long Island is not legally recognized as an island, but a peninsula
KYo4Q TIL the world record for the longest time spent under totality (full solar eclipse) is 74 minutes. A group of scientists rode the supersonic Concorde that flew Mach 2 chasing the 1973 Solar Eclipse over Northern Africa.
XPnk TIL in 2011 a study found that individuals with high social anxiety had high empathy. The study found that high empathy may make socially anxious individuals more sensitive and attentive to other people’s states of mind.
9wbQD TIL The WW1 German Battlecruiser SMS Derfflinger gained the distinction of being a ship that spent more time afloat upside down than the right way up.