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TIL elephants produce 2000 liters of methane a day in their digestive system, enough to run a car for 20 miles.

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AD5da TIL In a year-long study people who received the Leap chair and office ergonomics training achieved up to a 17.8% increase in productivity
JY1Bj TIL as glaciers retreated at the end of the last Ice Age, a catastrophic flood in the Pacific Northwest created a waterfall with an estimated flow ten times a great as that of all current rivers in the world combined.
EgEOx TIL construction on the Empire State Building started on March 17, 1930, and the building opened thirteen and a half months afterward on May 1, 1931.
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e0By5 TIL that during the Cold War, Chairman Mao held meetings in his swimming pool to embarrass Nikola Khrushchev, who had to wear a floaty as he couldn’t swim. Khrushchev felt insulted and the incident furthered the deterioration of relations between the Soviet Union and China