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TIL that squirrels can theoretically survive a fall from ANY height due to their size and mass.

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6EKdX TIL that “elevator music” and “hold music” had its beginnings in WWI when an Army Major General, George Owen Squier, invented a way to transmit music from phonograph records, long distance over electrical power lines. This invention led him to start the Muzak company.
BOae TIL that there are still 4 teams in the NFL that, in 50 years, have never once been to a Super Bowl.
NonN TIL that in 1915, the Washington Post made one of the most infamous typos in newspaper history by misspelling ‘entertaining’ as 'entering’ while covering one of Woodrow Wilson’s dates with his fiancée: “Rather than paying attention to the play, the President spent the evening entering Mrs. Galt.”
4dAJ TIL that in 1942, the HMS Porcupine was split in half by a German torpedo. The two sides were salvaged and renamed the HMS Pork and the HMS Pine.
OAR TIL that if you removed all of the empty space from our atoms, you could fit the entire human race into a volume the size of a sugar cube