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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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4kN6J TIL: Helium, the kind we suck from balloons at parties, is a finite, non-renewable resource that’s only recoverable in a few locations around the world. It’s also needed for MRIs, microchips, and fiber optic cables.
rN5L4 TIL of Dr. Albert Kligman, a dermatologist who experimented on inmates at the Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia. He exposed inmates to pathogens and chemical warfare agents. The prison became known as the Terrordome.
918p TIL: Raccoons lead a coordinated attack on the TeV particle accelerator in Illinois.
VMymk TIL Isabel Ingram was an American tutor to Wanrong, the Empress Consort of Puyi, the Last Emperor of China. From age 20, she lived in the Forbidden City, where she taught Wanrong the speech, modes, and manners of the West. The two also tried to look like one another and traded clothes
wvoJ TIL 700 years ago a monk scraped off the ink of old parchment to write a new prayer book. Recent discoveries find that the paper he erased was a manuscript wriitten by Archimedes that laid out the heart of calculus thousands of years before Newton was even born.