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TIL a giraffe heart spans 2 feet and weighs 25 pounds

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QJkKa TIL American English spellings like "color" and "center" were first published by Noah Webster as an effort to simplify what he thought were unnecessarily complex spelling rules.
16M8D TIL: Fiddlesticks are traditional instruments used to add percussion to old-time/Cajun fiddle music, allowing two people to play the fiddle at the same time. While the fiddler plays in normal fashion, a second person uses a pair of sticks, or knitting needles etc. to tap out a rhythm on the strings.
7r9gX TIL Hydrogen-alpha filters used for looking at the sun transmit only one specific wavelength of light: a deep red light emitted by hydrogen atoms of the sun. H-alpha filters are much more expensive than white light filters. The least expensive ones start at about $700
LkNKr TIL that there are as many as 800 languages spoken in New York City, making it the most linguistically diverse city on the planet, and nowhere in the world has more than Queens, according to the Endangered Language Alliance (ELA).
Rr49 TIL that the CIA turned a blind eye to cocaine trafficking, but the reporter who discovered it was fired and harassed by most newspapers