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TIL that a 500 page book contains only 0.53 calories

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w6d8 TIL Mail was delivered 12 times a day in Victorian London, with immediate responses often expected, and people got upset if letters weren’t received within a couple of hours
PYAQw TIL about The Man in the Moone, a 1638 novel that is considered by some to be one of the first works of science fiction. In it, a Spaniard ends up on the moon after fleeing Spain and harnessing some wild swans who fly him up to it. He then meets the “Lunars”-a people who inhabit the moon.
L4Gv TIL: In 1946, Salvador Dali created a short film with Walt Disney that didn’t see the light of day for 58 years
LQ6er TIL that the great majority of jobs are filled through intrapersonal and professional connections and are never advertised to the greater public.
M7Rxb TIL There Used to be an Annual College Football All-Stars vs NFL Game from 1934-1979