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TIL that Obesity Doubles a Person’s Chances of Suffering from Migraines

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yQP4w TIL: that Voyager 1 is travelling so fast that it would take just over 5 minutes to travel from London to New York
Eg1D0 TIL of the "Boring Billion". From roughly 1.8 billion BC to 0.8 billion BC, relatively nothing happened on earth. There was tectonic stability, a static climate, and hardly any biological evolution. It has been termed "The Dullest Time in Earth's History".
0XyA TIL the British empire was completely connected by telegraph via underwater cables.
W7vJ4 TIL 41,459 different species are threatened with extinction
691kX TIL There is an electrostatic attraction between pollen and bees; pollen is negatively charged and bees carry a positive charge.