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TIL Earth travels 18.5 miles per second around the sun
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X0pDD
TIL The "Pinch" in Ocean's 11 is real, not theoretical device called a "Explosively pumped flux compression generator"
AWAB
TiL:People didn’t empty chamber pots into the streets in the middle ages.
mx0RP
TIL US Army dentist Ben L. Salomon was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for providing a rear-guard action during the Battle of Saipan. His body was found laying on his machine gun with 98 Japanese soldiers in front of him and 76 bullet wounds (and almost as many bayonet wounds) in him.
jAEv
TIL R. Norris Williams survived the Titanic sinking but spent so much time submerged in the icy Atlantic that doctors wanted to amputate his legs on rescue ship Carpathia. He refused the amputation ,recovered and went on to win the U.S. Tennis Championship that very same year
1DLr
Til that the hospital where Scrubs was filmed was torn down 4 years ago.