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TIL that although, in 2009, Jessica Watson sailed around the planet in solo on her Pink Lady yacht, she didn't manage to do a complete circumnavigation because she was short by nearly 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) of the full distance of 21,600 nautical miles (40,000 km)

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AkMa TIL elephants are the only mammal other than humans which have chins.
geey TIL Matthew McConaughey gave up on going to law school in 1993 to go into acting. His breakout movie role came in 1996, as a lawyer.
odXR TIL some cadavers that are donated to science are used by auto makers as crash-test dummies
BrBpK TIL mass deaths due to the governmental acts of criminal omission and neglect is called Democide
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