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TIL that the first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman

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D16MD TIL Blue Whales eat between 20 and 50 million calories every day. That's approximately what a human adult eat in 50 years (2500 calories/day). In the words of the researcher himself, "that is about 70 to 80 thousand Big Macs".
wPLE TIL there is a Train station in Sweden that uses people’s body heat to warm adjacent buildings
VMZR8 TIL that before he started writing children's books, Dr. Seuss was a successful advertising illustrator, working for companies like Standard Oil, NBC, Ford, and General Electric
m1v8v TIL Snoop Dogg wanted to rent the country of Liechtenstein for 1 day for his song clip, but could not rent the country because he reported late to the country
7roKp TIL About the Iroquois Theatre fire of 1903, in which over 602 people died. It gained a lot of attention as the victims were mainly women and children from an upper-middle class background. The theatre had been falsely billed as “absolutely fireproof”, but lacked basic safety infrastructure.