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TIL There's a museum that has the world's largest collection of the world's smallest versions of the world's largest things.

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9Y6yX TIL that legendary mountain man Jim Bridger loved telling tall tales, his favorite being the story about his pursuit by 100 Cheyenne warriors ending in him being closed in at the end of a canyon. At this point he would stop, and when inevitably asked what happened next, would reply "they killed me."
DQaPY TIL - English physician William Harvey was a prominent skeptic regarding allegations of witchcraft. He was one of the examiners of four women from Lancashire accused of witchcraft in 1634, and as a consequence of his report, all of them were acquitted.
6EEbW At peak performance, Summit will perform 200 million billion operations a second and require as much energy as a decent-sized city (12,000 homes!).
6NZw TIL As part of their training for End of Watch, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña spent five months doing 12-hour ride-alongs with on-duty LAPD officers. During Gyllenhaal’s first ride-along, he witnessed a murder.
9wrlG TIL, all humans are born as arseholes. Being deuterostomes, the anus develops before the mouth.