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TIL the average pencil holds enough graphite to draw a line about 35 miles long or to write roughly 45,000 words

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6EkWQ TIL that Canada has entire mountain ranges that have never been explored.
7wBM TIL that all through the 20th century, and up until 2007, parts of Lower Manhattan were still wired up with and using Edison’s original 110V DC.
b9rna TIL about the Morris Worm, a computer program developed in 1988 meant to map out the internet. Instead, it basically crashed the entire web.
neZBb TIL The grand children of Hermann Göring (commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe and highly ranked Nazi Officer) sterilised themselves to cut the family line.
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