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TIL All mammals (and possible all animals) have, within an order of magnitude, the same number of heart beats in their lifetime

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NpyM TIL that in Saudi Arabia the weekend is Thursday and Friday. Some business leaders want to switch to a Friday-Saturday weekend to match other Middle Eastern countries, but religious conservatives don’t want to share a weekend with Israel.
Eg9AV TIL Geosmin compound causes the earthy petrichor smell of rain after a dry spell, also causes muddy freshwater fish taste...diminished by acidic cooking
7rVpb TIL the survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash mutually agreed that if they died, the others could use their bodies for sustenance. At the beginning they only managed to eat skin and muscles, but in the end they also ate hearts and brains.
eGmL TIL scientists believe the “Spokane Flood” was the largest ever megaflood to occur on our planet and would have drowned a 40-storey building. The waterfall it created carried 10 times the water of all modern rivers combined.
jNAbX TIL Two pigmy whales, a mother and a calf got stranded in a beach unable to navigate back to the ocean past a series of sandbanks. Seeing their plight a dolphin arrived and guided the whales 200 yards along the shoreline and out through a channel into the open sea.