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TIL Toronto Maple Leafs player Ryan Reaves is the great-great-great grandson of famous old west lawman Bass Reaves

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xV74k TIL the longest road in the world is the Pan-American Highway stretching 29,800 miles
VBE4m TIL that mathematician Mike Keith wrote a 10,000-word book (consisting of short stories, poetry, puzzles) in which the number of letters in successive words encodes the first 10,000 digits of pi.
0mvM TIL that cement and concrete are not the same thing. Cement is only 10-15% of the makeup of concrete and acts to bind the other elements together.
WDYL TIL that an organization called food for the poor has a CEO named Robin Mahfood
WD68 TIL In 1964, the inventor Karl Kroyer once filled a sunken ship with 27 million plastic balls to make it lighter and easy to remove. He then tried to patent the idea but failed as examiner found the same method used by Donald duck in a comic book in 1949, 15 years before.