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TIL about Logistics. At 51,420 minutes (857 hours or 35 days and 17 hours), it is the longest film ever made. The trailer is a mere 7 hours and 20 minutes.

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JY1yl Til that in the Philippines extreme poverty has lead to a rising trend of people eating recooked trash called Pagbag
6XXW TIL male lobster’s bladders are in their heads, and when they fight, they squirt each other in the face with urine
wLA4E TIL The Milky Way rotates at a speed of 168 miles per second. So, the actual place in space where you were an hour ago is now roughly 600,000 miles away.
1anYD TIL that for over 100 years, Canada forced many Indigenous children to attend Residential schools away from their families years at a time. The quality of instruction was sub-par, many children were physically, sexually, and mentally abused, and at least 4000 children died in the school system.
16XK8 TIL about "Tullimonstrum", or "Tully's Monster" - an extinct organism shaped like a cigar crossed with a squid, with no confirmed classification, a camera-like eye, and a jaw that extends away from the main body.