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TIL that a blue whale’s blood vessels are wide enough for a human to swim through.

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jNyKX TIL about the power of placebo. In a 2002 study spanning two years, people with osteoarthritis improved equally whether they were given knee surgery or tricked into thinking they received it.
Yg1A TIL that in some countries such as Mexico,Germany and Austria Prison escape is not punishable by law if the escaper doesn’t break any other laws due to the fact that the human instinct is to be free.
kxoB TIL that Mark Wahlberg committed vicious hate crimes, including harassing African-American children by throwing rocks at them and shouting racial epithets and permanently blinding a Vietnamese man in one eye.
dDDjZ TIL Johnny Yong Bosch became a voice actor by accident. He had to dub over his lines for a film after an audio production issue and a producer said he had a good “hero voice” and asked him to audition for an animation. A few weeks after that audition he booked the role of Vash in the anime Trigun.
0wopv TIL wisdom teeth are virtually nonexistent in indigenous Mexicans