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TIL that ELO, the rating system used in chess and esports is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American Physics Professor

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mWaE TIL that the tendency for small wettable floating objects to attract one another is called the “Cheerios Effect”
LQ5yr TIL that at least one malaria strain has evolved to make infected mosquitoes feed more frequently. This is because mosquitoes’ immune systems eventually kill most diseases they consume, requiring them to feed again quickly to spread a disease.
MNAa TIL Mars’s largest moon, Phobos, is one third hollow. Which once led some to believe it was artificial in origin.
rNDe TIL that in 1994 there was a mass genocide where over 1,000,000 people were murdered in 100 days and the worlds leaders knew and did nothing.
G5EE TIL there exists a fungus, the smell of which can trigger spontaneous orgasms in human females.