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TIL of the 1908 Tunguska explosion in Siberia, which experts believe was an asteroid that ripped apart 800 square miles of forest

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l7E9N TIL: George Washington's statue in London sits on imported Virginia dirt because he vowed to never step foot on British soil again
YV7W TIL That there is a cloud of alcohol with a diameter 1,000 times larger than our solar system. It’s about 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Aquila. The amount of alcohol present in the cloud could serve up to 400 septillion (400, followed by 24 additional zeros) drinks.
xvRD TIL that there is a species of frog that will intentionally break its bones to make ‘claws’ as a form of self-defense
ejJk TIL - Dunbar’s Number is 148, the predicted human “mean group size” of the limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships.
0d9rN TIL The Stranglers hit single 'Golden Brown' peaked at #2 in the U.K. Lead singer Hugh Wilson said it could have been #1 if their bassist hadn't mentioned that it was about heroin. "I would have waited till it got to Number 1 and THEN said it," he commented.