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

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VQr8 TIL the next Y2K like event will happen in 2038. But the sun will swallow the earth before we have to worry about a date problem again if systems use a 64bit date value.
p8rnQ TIL the first detailed medical description of Parkinson's Disease is over 200 years old, yet we still don't know what causes it, how to detect it before symptoms show, and there is still no cure.
b6Zb7 TIL after the fires that followed the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, many insurance companies tried to avoid covering the losses, except for Lloyd's of London: "Pay all of our policyholders in full, irrespective of the terms of their policies." This cemented Lloyd's reputation in the U.S.
6961w TIL last year a news team ordered aluminum pots from seven different Amazon and Etsy retailers and found measurably dangerous amounts of lead in six of them
Zpv6o TIL that, during a battle in the French and Indian War, George Washington survived having had two horses shot from under him and four bullets piercing his coat.