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TIL Of the estimated 60,000 people left stranded by Hurricane Katrina, over 33,500 were saved by the Coast Guard

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4XJ8b TIL that in 1997, Cornell University created the world's smallest guitar at 10 micrometers. This is roughly the size of a single cell.