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TIL that every atom comprising your body would span 73 light years if consecutively stacked together

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WrAL TIL that Polish exiles were not only the best-performing RAF pilots in the Battle of Britain, but also very successful with women; “they always have a girl on each arm. They say the girls cannot resist the Poles, nor the Poles the girls”.
4XvD5 TIL Sears used to sell houses during the Jim Crow era, and since they were sold through magazines, no one could deny selling the houses to blacks because of anonymity.
w8eY TIL Marilyn Monroes was Playboy’s first Sweetheart (later Playmate) of the Month. Marilyn had been paid $50 to model for the picture in 1949; Hugh Hefner bought it for $500 and launched an empire.
ZpAb4 TIL that when Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981, hospital staff cut away his clothing. Finding a laminated card in his suit pocket, they discarded it into his shoe on the floor where it was left unattended. That card was the list of nuclear launch codes.
9YYm6 And if we combined the two, what extraordinary intelligence would they be capable of?