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TIL The iPhone is the 2nd best selling product of all time, second only to the Rubik’s Cube.

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wLBA1 TIL Humans are incredible long distance runners. There’s a Man vs Horse marathon held in Wales annually since 1980. It’s been won by a human multiple times after the first human winner in 2004.
OGO07 TIL licorice candy can cause erectile dysfunction, among other health issues
W766d TIL with the names on the Stanley Cup being engraved by hand, there are roughly 16 spelling mistakes on it. While some of the misspellings have been corrected, others remain.
0dvVN TIL of the HMS Royal George, the largest warship in the world at the time of her launch in 1756. Her sinking near Portsmouth killed more than 800 people, making it one of the most deadly maritime disasters in British territorial waters. Many who died were women and children, visiting family onboard.
AD16l TIL while the chloroplasts of nearly all known photosynthetic eukaryotes derive ultimately from the a single cyanobacterium taken in by a eukaryote a billion years ago, there are 3 species of amoeba which had taken on a cyanobacterium more recently and whose endosymbiont is called a chromatophore