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TIL that it takes 90 days for a single drop of water to travel the Mississippi River’s entire length. From its source, Lake Itasca, to its end, the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River flows 2340 miles.

by whatilearned September 6, 2022, 5:49 am

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Americans named Miles, do you go by “Kilometers” when you travel abroad?

by QuestionGuy September 6, 2022, 12:11 am

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TIL of the The Ténéré Tree, which was the most isolated tree in the world for 300 years, 250 miles from any other in Niger’s Sahara Desert, until it was knocked over by a truck driver in 1973

by whatilearned September 5, 2022, 6:01 am

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TIL about Gardiners Island. 2nd largest private island in the US and owned by the same family since 1639. Located at the east end of Long Island, it’s over 5 sq miles with 1,000 acres each of old growth forest and meadows. Captain Kidd buried treasure there, first lady Julia Tyler was born there.

by whatilearned August 30, 2022, 10:59 pm

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TIL that in addition to using the stars, Micronesians navigated the Pacific by recognizing and interpreting different type of ocean swells, even using them to pinpoint the existence of islands hundreds of miles away. Marshallese islanders additionally made stick maps of these ocean swell patterns.

by whatilearned August 26, 2022, 7:42 am

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TIL that the fibonacci sequence can approximately convert miles to kilometers. Select any two adjacent numbers from the series e.g. 8 and 13. Assuming smaller number is in miles & larger number is in kilometers. 1 Miles = 1.60934 Kilometer, 8 Miles = 8 * 1.60934 = 12.8747 Km ≈ 13 Km, so 8M ≈ 13Km

by whatilearned August 25, 2022, 7:12 pm

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Tails Miles Prower is so hot.

by CopyPastaArchive August 24, 2022, 9:36 pm

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TIL that the longest perfectly straight stretch of the U.S. interstate highway system is on I-80 between Lincoln and Grand Island, Nebraska and is approximately 72 miles (116 km) long.

by whatilearned August 23, 2022, 1:58 pm

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An Amish farmer and his son were driving their horse-drawn buggy down a road where there was no room to turn around in either direction for two miles.

by cringeyjokesman August 22, 2022, 3:17 pm

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TIL that the Government of Taiwain controls more territories than just Taiwain, including Kinmen, a group of island just 6.2 miles off the coast of Mainland China.

by whatilearned August 21, 2022, 6:53 am

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TIL: in 2013, 64-year-old Diana Nyad swam from Cuba to Florida. A distance of 110 miles. It took 53 hours.

by whatilearned August 19, 2022, 11:51 am

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TIL the largest living organism as of June 2022 is a specimen of “Posidonia australis” seagrass (aka Poseidon’s ribbon weed).Spawned from a single seed around 4500 years old and covering approximately 200 square kilometres (77 square miles), the entire plant is connected and shares the same DNA.

by whatilearned August 17, 2022, 6:08 am

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