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TIL Candy Crush brings in $633,000 per day.

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xX1D TIL that 2 years after Titanic sank, the Empress Of Ireland sank in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and lost 68.5% of all passengers (.5% more than Titanic!). The event was buried in the papers because of WWI.
p8jlQ TIL only about 4 percent of people have "outie" bellybuttons as adults. Surgeons now offer umbilicoplasty procedures to change the bellybutton's appearance and to turn outies into innies.
kOLKE TIL that Stan Lee and Dr. Seuss were in the same military unit during WW2
woN1J TIL that in 2023, scientists discovered a massive structure in space called the "Big Ring"—it’s so big that it shouldn’t even exist according to our current understanding of cosmology. The universe is supposed to be uniform on large scales, with no structures bigger than about 1 billion light-years.
YpybW TIL all vertebrates (except fish) have the same basic skeleton design: a column of vertebrae that supports the body and head, a skull that houses and protects the brain and sense organs, ribs that protect the heart and lungs and 4 limbs. Every limb also shares the same basic pattern and has 5 digits