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TIL: A blue whale's heart beats only 8 to 10 times per minute and circulates 5300 litres or 9326 pints of blood around the whale's body

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yVneM TIL a violent Welsh Nationlist movement attempted to bomb Prince Charles in 1969, only for their bomb to accidentally detonate a day early, killing two of the bombers.
XEYNX TIL Cebu City is the busiest sea port in the Philippines and was also once a bustling commercial hub between Mexico and China. However, almost none of its long coastline contains beaches and it is instead occupied by industry, ports, slums and marshlands
Nk61 TIL Steve Jobs has no public record of giving to charity
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OodYL TIL limonene (an extract from citrus peels) was used as an experimental liquid rocket fuel, and blanketed the entire testing area with the smell of lemon oil whenever it was fired.