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TIL The circulatory system is more than 60,000 miles long, which is indeed more than twice the Earth's circumference

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1jkX TIL of Hofstadter’s Law which states “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”
wLXwJ TIL the leaves of the Australian Gympie Gympie plant are covered by hollow glass needles filled with a neurotoxin. The sting can last for years and is so exquisitely painful people have killed themselves after being stung.
R7rdw TIL in 1927, a store that sold blocks of ice called the Southland Ice Company decided to keep extended hours, from 7am-11pm. They changed their name to 7-11. Once, after a football game, customers kept coming in and they were not able to close all night, so they adopted a 24 hour model
V4r0 TIL Osama bin Laden’s estranged son is a British resident, although his visa was initially declined because he “failed to state his father’s permanent address.”
vPw0r TIL Max Planck, the father of quantum theory, considered his quantum hypothesis just a mathematical trick to get the right answer rather than a sizable discovery until Einstein interpreted his hypothesis realistically and used it to explain physical phenomena.