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TIL that due to time-zones, Earth has 26 hours a day

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ne9Ar TIL that in Ancient Rome, bestiarii, or gladiators who fought animals, often killed themselves rather than fight. In one instance, twenty-nine prisoners strangled each other to death rather than to fight in the arena.
ne50Y Today I learned that it is illegal to export more than $25 in pennies or nickels. Previously it was $5.
bjlN TIL it would only take ~12 GB to download all ~5,000,000 articles from Wikipedia.
9m9M TIL: The average GPA at Harvard is 3.65. This is more than a full point higher than the average GPA in 1950.
m0RY TIL that Steve Young continues to earn millions of dollars from a contract to play QB for a team and league that hasn’t existed in nearly 30 years.