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TIL the idea that if you connect all of your blood vessels up end to end that it would stretch (100,000km/60,000mi) or 2 and a half times around the world is wrong, it's actually only 9,000km to 19,000km or 5,600mi to 11,800mi. So not even 1 time around the world.

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