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TIL that Cast Away’s unopened FedEx box contained two bottles of salsa verde (per a deleted scene in the script)

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jGoR TIL a man bitten by a poisonous coral snake killed the reptile by biting off its head then used its skin as a tourniquet
v1bAK TIL the arteries of the blue whale—the largest living creature on earth—are so big that a full-sized human being could swim through them. Blue whales can grow to over 100 ft long, and weigh over 100 tons. Their hearts can weigh up to 1,300 lb—with aortas over 9 inches in diameter & HR of 8-10 bpm.
WlD4 TIL of Gobekli Tepe. An ancient temple more sophisticated then stone henge which predates it by 6000 years. Making Stone Henge closer to us in years than the creaters of Gobekli Tepe were to Stone Henge.
VB6Y4 TIL that China uses only one time zone across the entire country, despite spanning about 5 geographic time zones
OGnwe TIL That in 1840s Australia, there was a rumor about a European women held against her will by the Kurnai people. For two years, the native people of the area were hunted, with a boy being captured. After arranging a meeting, the natives arrived with a statue; the figurehead from the ship, Britannia