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TIL There exists such a thing as ketchup cookies

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P1Oxe TIL the longest fall ever survived without a parachute was a flight attended in 1972 who dropped over 30k feet and survived.
R7wBw TIL the world is 123 billion acres in size, of which 37 billion acres are land. This means that there are a notional four acres available for every human.
R75k6 TIL that before the Han-Liu War, a 1932 battle between opposing warlords for the Shandong province, many of Liu's soldiers brought their own coffins to the battle because they expected to fight to the death.
J1pRj TIL following Washington's victory at Yorktown, he ordered the re-enslavement of thousands of free former slaves that were attached to the British army
xLX1 TIL a cat purrs at the same rate as an idling diesel engine - roughly 26 cycles per second.