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TIL the only vertebrates to be preserved mating are a pair of 47 million-year-old turtles that were attached by their genitals as they got buried alive.

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4kkZN TIL: no one has accurately measured the speed of light (C) in one direction
E1777 TIL that 40% of type 2 diabetes is not related to weight or diet.
Z8Vka TIL that the deepest building in the world is the Jinping Underground Laboratory in China and sits 7,900 feet (2.4 km) below the earth, which is equivalent to 7 Empire State Buildings stacked on top of one another.
P1Jje TIL of English lawyer Frederic Weatherly (1848–1929), who inadvertently created the coxless fours in rowing by jumping out of the boat at the start of the race to save weight. Oh, yeah, and he also wrote about 3,000 song lyrics, including "Danny Boy".
4XNaw TIL Starbucks would not exist without the intervention of Bill Gates’ dad, who yelled at and shamed a colleague for trying to outbid Howard Schultz’ on Starbucks and steal “a kid’s” dream away from him. The colleague withdrew and Gates Sr. helped Howard Schultz fund the deal.