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TIL the Amazon river discharges more water into the ocean than the next 7 largest rivers combined.

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loQ17 TIL about Formula Rossa, a roller coaster in Dhabi with a top speed of 149mph. This ride requires you to wear safety glasses to ride, and is currently the fastest roller coaster in the world.
DyRj TIL that there was a tiny 20 soldier Civil War battle in Arizona. Every year the state holds a re-enactment, which has become so popular that the re-enactment typically features significantly more soldiers than the actual battle did.
QNlep TIL the comedian Stephen Chow had one of the single most dominant years in box office history in 1992, when he starred in every one of the top five grossing films of the Hong Kong box office: Justice, My Foot; All’s Well Ends Well; Royal Tramp; King of Beggars; and Royal Tramp II
M7Nv7 TIL the curved surface of the habitat at the end of the movie Interstellar i.e. Cooper station is based on O'Neill cylinders in which two cylinders each 20miles long and 5miles in diameter rotate about their longitudinal axis thus providing centrifugal force serving as gravity.
VWEk TIL: Dr. Pepper was made to taste like the smell of a drug store