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TIL that if you type “Bacon Number” and any actor’s name into Google, it will tell you their degrees of separation. It is difficult to get above 2.

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xRKb TIL Columbus thought that some manatees he saw were mermaids. He wrote that they were ‘not half as beautiful as they are painted’
GYww5 TIL there are at least 711 asteroids each with a value exceeding $100 trillion USD. The current global economy is roughly $80 trillion USD.
neb7 TIL that the urinals in Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport have the image of a fly etched into the basin. Men instinctively can’t resist a target so their bathrooms stay clean.
BrlDe TIL the Lewis & Clark expedition only suffered one casualty. Dysentery, snake bites, a dislocated shoulder, venereal disease and Lewis being shot in the buttocks after being mistaken for an elk all threatened the group's well-being, but the only man to die did so as a result of a burst appendix.
neW19 TIL bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun