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TIL Kansas is actually flatter than a pancake

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n819 TIL using the most lowballed version of Drake’s Equation there are between 200 - 400 billion civilizations in the Observable Universe at any given time.
5lbD TIL That during a concert in San Francisco in 1973, an audience member watching The Who played the drums for the band when Keith Moon passed out mid-show
p8N4p TIL that an Irish farmer called Quin was digging for potatoes in 1868 and instead found the Ardagh chalice, which remains one of the finest insular works of art we have of the celtic period.
7NPP TIL Prostitution exists among some penguins and chimpanzees. They prostitute themselves for things like stones or food.
LpWm TIL That the U.S. Military used (and may still use) the “Meow Mix” commercial theme song as a torture device in some prisons, by playing it loud and on repeat.