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TIL a mermaid documentary fooled so many people that the U.S. Government had to issue a statement

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4X4R6 Today I learned that each train car of coal loses up to 3% of its load, a literal ton of coal, as dust when it is traveling from the mine to the power plant.
rN1p0 TIL In 1985, James Stephen Fossett an American businessman set a world record for the longest non-stop flight in a hot air balloon, flying 3,737 miles (6,036 kilometers) from South Dakota to Texas.
GJEJ TIL of 286 scholarly investigations: 221 empirical studies and 65 reviews and/or analyses, that demonstrate women are as physically aggressive, or more, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 371,600.
xV4E0 TIL the Outerbridge Crossing, connecting Staten Island to Perth Amboy, was not named so because it's the outermost bridge in NYC, but in honor of the first chairman of the Port Authority of NY and NJ, Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge
kOOm TIL that approximately 20,000 cancer cases per year could be prevented by increasing fruit and vegetable consumption by one serving each per day.