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TIL a mile is approximately 1000 paces

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4kryR TIL of Buford Pusser, the inspiration for the "Walking Tall" movies. As sheriff he waged a one-man war against the Dixie mafia in his small town. He survived multiple assassination attempts, including one which killed his wife. He eventually died in a one-person car accident at 36 years of age.
LkMZm TIL of Dunbar's number, proposed by anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who found a correlation between primate brain size and avg. social group size. By using the avg. human brain size and extrapolating from the results of primates, he proposed humans can comfortably maintain only 150 stable relationships
5VDrk TIL that family names are rare in Pakistan, and almost all boys are given the first name “Muhammad.” They’ll instead use their second or third given name, and also append this given name to their children’s names.
78VnO TIL Sharks don’t have bones.
896Z TIL that the deepest artificial hole on Earth is the Kola Superdeep Borehole, in Russia. It is 12,262m deep, which is 1% of the distance from Earth’s center.