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TIL There are approximately 500,000 people on aircraft above North America at any one time.

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Z81mR TIL that platypus can produce milk but they dont have teats; instead they concentrate their milk in their stomach and sweat the milk.
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MxBK TIL Tetris is named from the joining of the Greek word “tetra” (meaning “four,” as every piece in the game has four blocks) and “tennis,” the creator’s favorite sport.
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69lbw TIL that Beethoven’s hearing loss may have helped him compose. He used “bone conduction” by clenching a rod in his teeth and pressing it against his piano, to receive perception of the sound when vibrations transfer from the piano to his jaw.