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TIL that Shark Tank pitches usually last an hour, and the longest ever was 2 1/2 hours long. These are edited down to just 10 minutes for TV viewers

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VMNV4 TIL that some accounts of St. Christopher said he descended from a race of dog-people.
j6RMn TIL: Woden was an Anglo-Saxon god from which our day of the week Wednesday is named after. Woden had a career in curing horses and carrying off the dead, and Wednesday is his day (Woden’s day). Various spellings—wodnesdaeg, Weodnesdei, Wenysday, wonysday, Weddinsday have been used
OoPQe TIL that dolphins need to leap out of the water (porpoising) when they’re swimming fast because they need additional oxygen to keep up with the physical exertion.
MeLgm TIL that Ganymede, Jupiter's moon, is the largest moon in the solar system and is larger than Mercury and Pluto. Also it is only slightly smaller than Mars and if it were orbiting the Sun rather than Jupiter, it would be classified as a planet itself.
Epvw TIL - Brad Pitt was banned from China for his role in the movie “7 Years in Tibet”