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TIL blind hiker Bill Irwin completed the Appalachian Trail with the help of his seeing eye dog, after falling ~5,000 times

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4XNVR TIL Keith Richards wrote the guitar lick for "Satisfaction" and recorded it on a Philips cassette recorder while sleepwalking. When he woke up the next day, he had no idea he had written it until he heard the recording of about two minutes of guitar and "then me snoring for the next forty minutes"
5VJ0D TIL that the Barilla's pasta manufacturing plant in Parma (Italy) is the world's largest pasta production facility. It is 430,000 square foot/40,000 square meters large and produces 320,000 tons of pasta annually
1aGLr TIL that if you get a blood transfusion with the wrong blood type a strong sense of impending doom will likely occur.
VM8G TIL you could crawl through the arteries in a blue whales heart
8aYPL TIL that 7 out of the 10 most likely states to die in an auto accident, are in the south