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TIL Water Bears Can Survive in Space

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VbKp TIL A MacBook charger has a tiny computer inside it for regulating power and such. That computer is about as powerful as the CPU for the original Macintosh.
vP1d8 TIL 'Ballooning' spiders are able to take off and fly through the air, without wind, by using a single line of web ejected into the air to propel them up the naturally generated electric fields in our atmosphere
xa5k TIL some U.S. bars and restaurants have been misleading patrons by replacing their standard 16-ounce pint glasses with nearly identical looking 14-ounce glasses
GpeJ TIL in the near future a Respirocyte, an artificial red blood cell, will allow humans to sprint for 15 minutes without a breath or hold their breath for 4 hours underwater
M7RLW TIL that 10+ sexual partners in a lifetime heights cancer risk in men by 70% and in women by 91%