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TIL that it would take less than a year for the average person to walk around the earth.

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DQNjg TIL of the interstitium, a new organ Western scientists discovered in 2018. The honeycombed network throughout the body, known to Chinese medicine for 2500 years, may help explain how acupuncture works and cancer spreads.
W7g8A TIL many English words and phrases are loaned from Chinese merchants interacting with British sailors like "chop chop," "long time no see," "no pain no gain," "no can do," and "look see"
D16NY TIL there are species of owls who freeze mice to eat later — when they’re hungry, they just sit on a mouse until it thaws and eats it then
xZd0 TIL that Soviet Russia had a movie genre called Eastern(Ostern) which was their version of the Western genre, with stories taking place in the Asian part of Russia
Y5oZ TIL that a group of more than 200 Japanese pensioners volunteered to tackle the nuclear crisis that happened at Fukushima power station saying “they should be facing the dangers of radiation, not the young”