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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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4XBjN TIL A bus driver in Brampton, Ontario, learned to speak fluent Punjabi with the help of passengers. Many people in the community are surprised and delighted at his Punjabi, including seniors who don't speak English
4kMjN TIL about the Zanclean flood: 5.33 Mya the dried-up Mediterranean Sea completely refilled within months, after being cut-off from the Atlantic for 630,000 years (Messinian salinity crisis). The waters broke through the Strait of Gibraltar at 1,000x the rate of the Amazon!
4RdR TIL that your Iphone keeps a 30 day record of everywhere you have been and for how long you where there.
XEbRX TIL that Redbone (most recently known for "Come and Get Your Love" from the opening credits of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)) is a Native American band
4XjJg TIL in the 90's there was a global semiconductor shortage not caused by a once-in-a-century pandemic or a spike in the automotive industry.... But by Tamagotchis.