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TIL: When standing on the beach and looking out at the horizon you are only able to see approximately 3 miles of ocean due to the curve of the Earth.

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7rg9M TIL that within a month of opening her pediatric clinic, Dr. Kathleen Holland experienced six cases of children stopping breathing during their visit, one of whom died. One of her nurses had been administering dangerous injections to them, and was in fact a serial killer, unbeknownst to Dr. Holland.
MvpA TIL that duct tape has been brought on every NASA mission since the sixties and saved the lives of everyone aboard the Apollo 13
yVGOJ TIL in 1836, when Nikolai Gogol presented his play The Government Inspector, focusing on a corrupt mayor tries to cover up his own corruption and bribe a visitor he mistakes as an inspector, the tsar personally overruled the censors and had it staged as a warning to officials.
nWapY TIL that a TV show called “This Is Your Life” invited Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a Japanese minister and atomic bomb survivor from Hiroshima. The show also featured a surprise guest, Robert Lewis, copilot of the Enola Gay.
BgR7b TIL: In 1994, an American teenager Michael Fay was convicted of spray-painting a bunch of cars and was caned as punishment. It was such a large issue at the time that the White House attempted to prevent it. A year later, the Simpsons released "Bart vs. Australia", which based on the event.