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TIL that Lethbridge Alberta had the second largest POW camp in North America during WW2

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0ABN TIL: Sperm swim 5mm/minute, the equivalent of a whale swimming 15,000 mph.
BrD1r TIL that there is more water in the vapor and clouds above the Amazon rainforest than there is in the Amazon river
e0kBE TIL in 2000 an impoundment spill in Martin County, Kentucky emptied 300 million gallons of waste (volume of the Empire State Building) containing mercury and arsenic into rivers feeding the Ohio River. Massey Energy received a $5600 fine by federal regulators.
P19yG TIL: A high school pitcher from Brenham, Texas won a record 53 straight games and, in 1989, was the first high schooler to make the cover of Sport Illustrated. His winning streak ended immediately after he appeared in SI. It was the only game he lost in his high school pitching career.
QNb4d TIL that in the 1930s, a man named Martin Couney saved the lives of thousands of premature babies by hosting them at a carnival