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TIL the Sun is so loud that if space was filled with air it would be 125db on Earth, 92 Million miles away

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E1VdV TIL the oldest (known) living terrestrial animal in the world is a Seychelles giant tortoise named Jonathan. He hatched in 1832, making him around 188 years old. He lives on the island of Saint Helena, a British Overseas Territory.
QXb6 TIL the campfire scene in Blazing Saddles is generally considered Hollywood’s first fart scene.
N7VwP TIL that Washingtonians live farther north than half of all Canadians
BgrKe TIL that the French writer Gérard de Nerval kept a pet lobster named Thibault, which he walked through Paris on the end of a silk ribbon
XEOyX TIL the kilogram is currently defined as the mass of a platinum-iridium cylinder called the International Prototype Kilogram, which was made in 1879 and is stored in a special vault in France. There exist several dozen official replicas, also called prototypes.