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TIL Your heart pumps 2000 gallons of blood a day. And all of the blood in your body once every minute.

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Y7XJG TIL the average person produces 11,000 gallons (41600 L) of pee in their lifetime, enough to fill up two 16-foot above ground pools two times.
j6E0R TIL that dead acidic lakes were fairly common in the US, Europe and Canada during the 70's and 80's because of acid rain.
D1WgD TIL the camera used to film Mary Poppins has never been successfully replicated. It's special prism could create "green screen" effects before modern green screens were invented, and is utterly unique.
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