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TIL Lake Superior is so voluminous it could cover the entire area of the United States in over 4 feet of water

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m90x TIL that in the moment leading up to the verdict announcement of the O.J. Simpson murder case, trading volume on the NYSE decreased by 41%, water usage decreased as people avoided using bathrooms, and so much work stopped that the verdict cost an estimated $480 million in lost productivity.
nerNG TIL SR-71 pilot Bill Weaver survived plunging from more than 78k feet after his plane malfunctioned and fell apart around him at more than 3 times the speed of sound. The force of the disintegration was so massive he was ripped from his ejection seat. Two weeks later he was back flying the Blackbird
NBw1 TIL that Irena Sendler, a nurse who secretly rescued 2500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust, and was viciously beaten by the Gestapo for her actions, was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 2007, the year it was awarded to Al Gore.
GYwvg TIL the largest observed snowflake was 15 inches / 38 cm wide (the average adult tibia (shinbone) is about 14 inches!). Witnessed by soldiers at Montana's Fort Keogh in 1887.
4X85X TIL Megan Fox auditioned for Michael Bay for her role in Transformers by washing his Ferrari in her bikini.