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TIL Alaska has over 3,000,000 lakes
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TIL about one to two Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth every day from their place in the thermosphere
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TIL People with surnames beginning with a letter near the start of the alphabet are more likely to win a Nobel Prize, due to being listed first in scientific papers.
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TIL from 1066 to 1971 in England a pound was worth 20 shillings, each worth 12 pennies, each worth 2 halfpennies, each worth 2 farthings, plus thruppence, sixpence, florin, half crown, and crown
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TIL that during the week of 4 April 1964, the Beatles held the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 singles simultaneously. This feat hasn’t been accomplished by any other artist to date, the closest being 50-Cent, who placed three titles simultaneously.
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TIL that in 1973, a drunk driver struck and killed the world’s most isolated tree, in the middle of the Sahara desert