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TIL: The New York Transit authority dumped over 2,500 subway cars into the Atlantic Ocean.

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rRQ1w TIL legendary R&B/soul singer Barry White was jailed for 4 months at age 16 for stealing $30,000 worth of Cadillac tires. While in jail, he heard Elvis Presley singing “Now Or Never” on the radio, an experience he later credited with changing the course of his life.
nePyo TIL that laid end to end, an adult’s blood vessels could circle Earth’s equator four times!
mpM TIL many of us are genetically predisposed to hate cilantro.
KGy6 TIL Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf, but became so as a result of “brain fever” and was friends with many celebrities during her lifetime ranging from Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplin to John F. Kennedy
6EB08 TIL that Sweden has the largest scale model of the solar system in the world. It is in the scale of 1:20 million and stretches 950 KM across the country.