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TIL that Chuck Taylor All-Stars have been around for over 100 years

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4XPYN TIL it’s spelled “champ at the bit,” not “chomp at the bit.”
67DX TIL that Lake Superior has approximately the same surface area as the state of South Carolina.
yQQWJ TIL that the fastest animal in the world relative to body size is a species of mite called the Paratarsotomus macropalpis, the mite can move at a speed of 322 body lengths per second. The equivalent speed for a human running as fast as this mite would be 1,300 mph
7MAX TIL there is a typewriter that types only in Comic Sans, called the “Sincerity Machine”
Lk0bZ TIL that Tatiana and Krista Hogan are conjoined twins of the brain and can see through eachothers eyes and read eachothers minds.