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TIL Florence Nightingale invented the pie chart

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9YLE6 TIL that during the battle of Hampton Roads, the USS Monitor's spinning turret became difficult to stop. The crew allowed the turret to spin around in circles and fired the turret on the fly, similar to a "360 no scope"
yQnr8 TIL if you unfurled all of your DNA in your body, it would stretch out at an incredible 10 billion miles. This means that your DNA would reach the sun and back 600 times.
a8nBL TIL That There Were American Bison Living in Florida Before European Incursion
ANgrB TIL the first victim of the Chernobyl disaster was Valery Khodemchuk who died as the reactor exploded, his body was never found and is entombed in the wreckage of the Chernobyl power plant
1a4EX TIL that chewing gum retains its quality for so long that it is not required by law in most countries to be labeled with an expiration date.