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TIL no matter what height a squirrel falls from, it will almost always survive due to its relatively low terminal velocity.

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R7BV1 TIL The granddaughter of Chinese Republican founder Sun Yat-sen dreamed about him twice, where he instructed her to promote his theories. She gave up her successful career as a property developer in Hawaii to travel around the world and made over 700 speeches about her grandfather's principles
b98XE TIL: Not much is known about him, but scholars know that William Shakespeare had a son who died at the age of 11. His name was "Hamnet."
l7RmN TIL that the moon is 1/400th the size of the sun but also 1/400th the distance from Earth which results in the moon and the sun being the same size in the sky, a coincidence not shared by any other known planet-moon combination.
neBrd TIL the Flying Dutchman was probably a result of an optical illusion
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