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TIL people experience time different depending on their culture

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9w5Jp TIL: The Hayflick limit is the number of times a normal human cell will divide before cell division stops.
9Y6D TIL that there is a book sequel to Forrest Gump in which Forrest helps develop New Coke, crashes the Exxon Valdez, helps destroy the Berlin Wall, meets Tom Hanks, and fights in Operation Desert Storm with an orangutan named Sue
94kQ TIL Quentin Tarantino’s ‘64 Chevy Malibu was stolen from the set of Pulp Fiction in 1994. It was recovered in 2013.
JZym TIL that when Disneyland opened, visitors had the option of arriving by highway or skyway (helicopter). However in 1968, 12 years after Disneyland opened,the skyway ended after a crash took the lives of 23 people (20 passengers and 3 crew members), the worst civilian helicopter crash in U.S. history
NE6E TIL that roughly 2/3 of the US population lives within 100 miles of the border.