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TIL Haugh units (HU) are used to measure the freshness of eggs!!

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ev04 TIL A Heart Attack and a Cardiac Arrest are two different things. A Heart Attack is a circulation failure, a Cardiac Arrest is an electrical failure.
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j8E TIL that since 2010, ps3 uses an audio watermark algorithm to detect illegal movie copies. It can survive compression, re-encoding and microphone recording yet it is imperceptible to human hearing.
Bg8ly TIL a hearing test for human babies was developed based on a study on how owls hear. The pupils in both owls and humans dilate when a new sound is heard
JJrV TIL that in a simulated, long-term, multinational space mission, Russian Cosmonauts sexually assaulted women, routinely broke into fist-fights.