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TIL that laid end to end, an adult’s blood vessels could circle Earth’s equator four times!

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JKav TIL Jim Henson once made 179 ads for a Wilkins Coffee company that depicted ‘Muppet-prototypes’ where one puppet who didn’t drink Wilkins Coffee would get injured and beat up by another puppet, he later went on to become Kermit The Frog and signed a deal with Wilkins Tea
8a7KP TIL 76 years ago yesterday, Dutch partisan Willem Arondeus was executed for bombing a public records office in Amsterdam, in an effort to prevent Nazi identification of local Jews. His last words were "Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards!"
rRb0x TIL Eyes Wide Shut (1999) holds the record for longest continuous film shoot at 400 days. It was also Stanley Kubrick's final film.
1aVvP TIL there is giant, hot pink slug. It is only found in a single, isolated forest on an extinct volcano in Australia.
MB00 TIL of “Unsinkable” Sam, a sailor during WWII who survived the sinking of the Bismarck, switched sides to the Allies, then survived the sinking of both the HMS Cossack and the HMS Ark Royal. Unsinkable Sam is also a cat.