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TIL Australia has over 10,000 beaches. You could visit a different beach every day for 27years.

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xVvnb TIL Mark Zuckerberg spent $30 million to buy 4 houses surrounding his home, because he wanted to have privacy.
lvnK TIL that Louis Pasteur, the inventor of pasteurization, also went on to create vaccines for Rabies, Anthrax, Tuberculosis, and Smallpox.
5Wgk TIL that the Amazon River spews so much fresh water into the Atlantic that surface water can be drinkable up to 200 miles from shore
78l47 TIL the United States ranks third in food quality and safety, behind Denmark and Canada.
noVY TIL that UC Davis researchers devised a test for bomb and drug-sniffing dogs. They put dogs through 144 runs of a clean room with no drugs or explosives. But the dogs indicated on 123 runs, indicating a failure rate of 85% according to the test’s criteria.