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TIL hippos secrete their own sunscreen

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4X7dJ TIL of the Burnden Park Disaster, a crowd crush at a football match in Bolton, England in 1946 in which 33 people were killed. 30 minutes after the crush, with the dead laying at the side of the pitch, the game restarted.
mxYwO TIL lottery winners’ neighbours have a higher chance of going bankrupt, because they try to keep up with the winners' increased rate of spending.
J1y41 TIL That back in 1739, measurements of the Earth were made that were so accurate, modern measurements of the circumference only differ by less than 8km. 40,000km -> 40,007.863km
g1o9 TIL that there isn’t a single McDonalds chain in Iceland
VB1B4 TIL Sea level is dropping around Greenland due to Greenland ice sheet is melting, and therefore there is less mass. Less mass, means less gravity pulling the ocean water toward the coast, and the water level drops.