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TIL Sean Connery was offered a contract to play for Manchester United, but turned it down to pursue acting

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N7wxQ TIL that the longest tunnel in the world is the aqueduct that takes water from upstate New York to Manhattan. It is 13.5 feet wide and 85 miles long.
Aopw TIL The youngest soldier in WWI was only 8 years old.
Br49W TIL those button-like things on some masks are for air to bypass filtration when exhaling
E1pwx TIL more than 20 people have died after getting stuck in donation boxes in the US and Canada over the past dozen years.
OjAR TIL Sunscreen is contributing to decline of coral reefs. The damaging effects were seen in coral in concentrations of oxybenzone as low as 62 parts per trillion, which is equivalent to a drop of water in six and a half Olympic-sized swimming pools, according to the researchers.