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TIL There are 37 unstaffed border crossings between the United States and Canada that operates on an honor system

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XERWE TIL African surgeons are often advised to treat hippo bites as a crushing injury rather than a penetration wound, due to the severity of damage to bones and internal organs. A majority of hippo attack survivors are left with a disability. Amputations are very common.
4E9R TIL Freddy Mercury took Lady Di to a gay bar…
690m7 TIL While light takes 8 minutes to reach earth from the sun, an object traveling the speed of light would orbit earth 7.5 times in 1 second.
lorm7 TIL that the simulation black hole in the movie Interstellar ended up actually deepening our understanding of black holes and adding to the scientific community
Wk7o8 TIL Hannibal Buress found a lookalike on social media, and sent him to the premiere of Spider-man: Homecoming in his place.