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TIL that if you dug a tunnel through the center of Earth, and jumped in, and let gravity pull you through it will take you to reach the other side of the planet 42 minutes more or less

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YpMY7 TIL that before McDonald's switched from cooking its fries in beef tallow to vegetable oil, the fries had more saturated beef fat than their hamburgers.
6PdZ TIL clockwise and counterclockwise were originally sunwise and widdershins before clocks were common
R7W97 TIL about "Milk Sickness" which affects people who drink milk from a cow that has fed on white snakeroot plant. While rare today, it used to kill thousands of Midwestern migrants who were unfamiliar with it, including Abraham Lincoln's mother.
grXp9 TIL about The Manifest Destiny that made people believe they had the right to take others land to expand capitalism and democracy
99NX TIL of the “suicide palm” recently discovered in Madagascar that flowers itself to death. The plant grows for decades before exploding with nectar-rich blossoms that deplete the plant’s nutrients and cause it to die