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TIL you could crawl through the arteries in a blue whales heart

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xyB7 TIL a 1,000 metre (3,281 ft) tall tower named Kingdom Tower is currently under construction in Saudi Arabia. If one were to stack the two original Twin Towers on top of one another and then place the Eiffel Tower in top of that, the resulting structure would not be as tall as Kingdom Tower.
4k9nX TIL French art critic Charles Baudelaire hated photography and thought it would be the death of art, saying "the photographic industry was the refuge of every would-be painter, every painter too ill-endowed or too lazy to complete his studies"
wL4xP TIL while many depictions of a heart attack include collapsing or loss of consciousness, these actually aren't common symptoms of it in real life. This causes frequent misunderstanding of the issue and improper care for heart attack sufferers.
e0V6J TIL The entire city of Liverpool, UK has boycotted the tabloid newspaper 'The Sun'
lkYA TIL Canada wants complete disarmament of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons