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TIL the original director of Jaws was Dick Richards but they fired him because he wouldn’t stop referring to the shark as a whale

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WkWn8 TIL that when you donate blood you lose about 650 calories, equivalent to about one hour of cardio.
R5gg9 TIL about the highest confirmed death toll from a lighting strike happened in Durunka, Egypt, 1994. When, during a thunderstorm, a lightning strike ignited three oil storage tanks and the floodwaters swept the blazing fuel into the village, killing approximately 469 people.
jX4E TIL the Irish word “bhfaighidh” is one syllable.
Zn8G TIL on the stroke of midnight on Jan 1, 1900, the SS Warrimoo intentionally crossed the international date line exactly at the equator. This put the vessel in two different seasons and two different centuries at the same time.
DQ9P TIL the income gap between the US and Mexico is the largest of any two adjacent countries in the world