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l76oV TIL The Earth gets about one pound heavier every second due to absorbing meteoroids and other space debris
0dw5y TIL It costs $1 Million-$2 Million per mile to build a railroad
aKw9 TIL Humans have more brain cells in their guts than cats have in their head
gM7KL TIL Apollo 13 was shot in “a hollowed-out, windowless, padded Boeing 707 jet that climbs to 30,000 ft. and then arcs into a steep dive, creating a 23-second period of weightlessness.” This plane is used by NASA for 0g training.
1aEGP TIL The history of the Cantonese, or Yue, language is more than 2,000 years old, making it older than Mandarin, the official language of China, which only has 700 to 800 years of history