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TIL the tail of a comet can reach 1 million km long

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M7MNA TIL in the mid-90s, a Children's Hospital in the UK improved its ICU hand-off process by consulting with the Ferrari F1 pit crew team.
W70l4 TIL that a toast sandwich is something that exists. There was a recipe for it in the ‘invalid cookery’ section of the 1861 Book of Household Management and in 2011, it was recreated by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
d5J7 TIL there is a quiet zone located in Virginia and West Virginia, nearly 13,000 square miles in size, where radio transmissions are strongly restricted by law, to the point of having a patrol that goes around and forces you to shut off anything that emits radio waves.
nebgb TIL that in 1867, an American businessman attended a reading of A Christmas Carol and was so moved by it, that he closed his factory on Christmas Day and sent every employee a turkey.
VB1j8 TIL that at $30 billion, Stan Lee has the highest career-film box office revenue gross of any other actor or actress in history, although his roles have all been brief cameos in Marvel films