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TIL like many other animals, humans have a "lunar cycle" which affects aspects of our biology

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9Y8dX TIL The term "bug" to describe a runtime error was popularized when in 1947 engineers discovered their program on a Harvard University Mark II computer was not working because a moth was stuck in one of the relays. They taped the bug into their engineering log book, still preserved today.
OGy6L TIL That the Sea of Japan has almost no perceptible tides.
X00nR TIL Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke believes that Earth was created 6,000 years ago despite picking up the oldest moon rock known to man dated 4.46 billion years old.
Wkea9 TIL the reason police tap on taillights or run their fingers along the side of a car during a traffic stop is because it left DNA evidence used to identify the vehicle afterwards without pictures or video. Now all patrol cars have cameras but it still occurs since it was part of training for decades
wovZ1 TIL that the third person to walk on the Moon had dyslexia and was expelled from high school before earning an engineering degree from Princeton.