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TIL that the largest ship currently in service is 1,312 feet long and 200 feet wide, the HMM Algeciras. Why not make one bigger? It will not fit in the Suez Canal.

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l775G TIL The Colorado River has not flowed into the ocean since 1998.
x6851 TIL of Burger King's "A Day Without Whopper" in Argentina. On November 10, 2017, Burger Kings in Argentina did not sell the Whopper and told customers who wanted one to buy a Big Mac at McDonald's instead, because McDonald's was donating the Big Mac proceeds that day to help children with cancer.
b9jyj TIL That in 1892 the Supreme Court ruled that the United States was a "Christian Nation"
EVBP TIL The genetic record suggests humans are only one of at least 16 upright-walking apes that have lived over the last 5-6 million years and we almost went extinct 70,000 years ago when our numbers dropped to around 2,000 individuals.
eWn6 TIL the spikes on the end of a Stegosaurus’s tail are called the “Thagomizer” after a Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson.