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TIL that the LEGO company is the largest tire manufacturer in the world

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OGb4L TIL that there was an attempt in US Army to use camel as transportation in the Southwest in 19th century.
p8RY4 TIL a Scottish man fasted for 382 days, living on vitamin supplements and non-caloric beverages. He was morbidly obese, weighing 456 pounds, and lost 276 pounds. The fast was monitored by doctors, who detected no ill-effects. He never regained the weight. It was the longest recorded fast in history.
v156D TIL Chris Hemsworth's first job was cleaning human breast pump rentals
ybke TIL if you had a baseball-sized piece of neutron star material it would weigh 20 trillion kg, about 40 times the estimated weight of the entire human population
Vewp TIL Most greenland sharks are blind due to a 3cm long parasite that latches onto their eye. The sharks have not evolved a defence because the parasite is bioluminescent and is theorised to attract prey to the shark’s head