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TIL that Philips lightbulb company has a much more efficient lightbulb that they are not allowed to sell anywhere in the world outside of Dubi; the bulb lasts significantly longer than their other bulbs.

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rNWke TIL the extinct giant shark Charcharadon Megalodon was 6.5-10 feet long AT BIRTH!
GAZaN TIL the oldest cat to give birth (to 2 kittens) was Kitty at 30 years old. She passed away just short of 32 yo and gave birth to a total of 218 kittens.
GY6W1 TIL they originally conceived Beavis and Butt-head Do America as a live action movie, with David Spade and Adam Sandler in mind to play the title characters.
0jm1 TIL that Buzz Aldrin’s first words on the Moon were “Beautiful view.”
X0DbP TIL John Von Neumann proposed an idea of self replicating spacecraft. Robert Freitas calcd they could colonize the milky way in 500k years. That we see no evidence of them implies we are alone. Carl Sagan argued rate of replication would consume so much mass no intelligent species would build them