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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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XEOEk TIL that China has only one time zone – despite spanning 5 geographical ones
DQo4e TIL that Cosmo Jarvis, lead actor of the Shogun mini series, had a music career.
Bb9L TIL that the sexual attraction to mid-to-late adolescents, ages 15-19, is called ephebophilia and not pedophilia and is considered scientifically natural.
mx6Mo TIL in 1997 Russia tried manually docking a supply vessel to the Mir space station using only a handheld laser range finder, stopwatch, and remote control joysticks. It went badly, but visiting NASA astronaut Michael Foale managed to save Mir by MacGyvering sailing technique with physics knowledge.
OGLJ7 TIL that Konrad Schumann, the subject of the famous photo of a soldier escaping communist East Berlin to the capitalist West, went to visit his family in former East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. They rejected him, considering him a traitor, and he committed suicide several years later.