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TIL 1 Newton is the weight of an average apple.

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nW4A9 TIL about the Index Thomisticus, a 34 year long project beginning in 1946 to make a machine readable concordance of the works of Thomas Aquinas, that required manually recording 10,631,980 Latin words onto punched cards and took a total of 1 million hours of human work to complete
vPvex TIL that researchers studied Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo's motor skills to determine how they score goals so consistently
0wbvp TIL that Singapore’s street food is so good that some street vendors are awarded Michelin stars for their food!
8eLDb TIL about someone who predicted a merger and brought the relevant domain and now wants to sell it and fund his education. He is now being sued.
DXVP TIL that dumping golf balls into the sea is outlawed because the plastic does not break down. A professor at the University of Maine used ground-up lobster shells and other materials to develop biodegradable golf balls. These balls are intended for use on cruise ships or driving ranges by the ocean.