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TIL It took four weeks to scuttle USS America, the Only supercarrier ever sunk

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wL99M TIL the skin on your lips is the same as the skin on your butt hole
xoO5 TIL that the first Allied shots of both world wars were fired from the same gun
Z88lv TIL that Over the course of two weeks, a single human male produces enough sperm to impregnate every fertile woman on the Earth.
4kkQJ TIL due its slow rotation around its own axis and its uneven orbital path around the sun, occasionally the sun will appear to reverse its path in Mercury's sky, and reverse again, causing Mercury to sometimes have a double sunrise.
b4Rp TIL that Ted Turner planned to colorize Citizen Kane, but scrapped the project after Orson Welles’ dying wish was “Don’t let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons.”