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TIL That Wagon trails from the Oregon Trail are still visible today

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gMZR9 TIL The world's tallest man as of 2006 was asked to help remove plastic from a dolphin's stomach, and he succeeded by sticking his arm down the dolphins' esophagus and pulling out the plastic by hand
yQZwa TIL the Beatles have a song called Revolution 9 where someone just says "number nine" for over 8 minutes, and when played backwards sounds like "turn me on dead man," which sparked a conspiracy theory that McCartney was killed and replaced with a look-alike
aM6A TIL the word for “roller coasters” in Russian translates to “American Mountains.”
LjDP TIL Saturn’s moon Titan has such a dense atmosphere(1.5Atm) and such a low gravity (0.138G) that if you strapped wings to your hands you could easily fly.
4j7X TIL One company produces up to 80% of the communion wafers used in U.S. Catholic churches​. The company is a secular industrial bakery that churns out more than 25 million wafers every week.