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TIL there is a research station called Troll in Antarctica
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TIL that Match Day for medical residents exists in which a single organization chooses all medical residencies in a single day. This organization serves to keep the number of residencies low, causing the infamous 80-100 hour resident workweek, and congress passed laws to keep this practice legal.
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TIL Sony invented a process for CD mastering called "Super Bit Mapping" (SBM), which virtually allows a CD to have a bit depth of 20 bits per sample while still effectively using the PCM one of 16 bits.
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TIL That doctors had been inadvertently causing a rise in peanut allergies by telling parents to avoid giving infants peanuts. They discovered Israeli babies are very low risk because of the popularity of the peanut snack Bamba in Israel.
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TIL that if you took a tablespoon of the matter that a neutron star is composed of it would weigh around 1 billion tons (900 billion kg), which is approximately the weight of Mt. Everest from base to summit.
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TIL That Mazdak, Was a Zoroastrian Priest and "Proto-Socialist" (Died in 524 or 528) Who Advocated For Social Reforms Including Pacifism, Anti-Clericalism and Aid For the Poor, and Wanted to Redistribute Excess Wealth.