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TIL that Dolly Parton wrote "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You" on the same day. Both songs are now over 50 years old.

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7JKP TIL that the idiom “the cat’s out of the bag” is derived from a practice by some merchants who sold piglets in bags. If the buyer was distracted, the merchant would quickly switch the piglet w/ a cat. The buyer wouldn’t realize until they got home and let the cat, and not a piglet, out of the bag.
dKBE TIL that a blue whale’s blood vessels are wide enough for a human to swim through.
BgvMW TIL anthropomorphism is defined as the tendency to attribute human forms, behaviors, and emotions to non-human animals or objects.
yB78 TIL The pioneer of BMX racing died homeless and alone in a vacant lot.
b5LZ TIL, The Strid is a narrow stream in Yorkshire with a deep chasm and undercurrents so strong that not a single person who has fallen into the Strid has ever come out of it alive