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TIL the first steam turbine was nothing more than a "party trick" for the ancient greeks

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b85a TIL Jupiter is as big as it can possibly get. If it gained more mass, it would begin to shrink due to higher gravity pulling the gasses in.
vPXmr TIL salt and pepper didn’t collab with each other until the 17th century.
Wlv9 TIL The number of people donating their bodies to science has doubled in the last ten years because funeral costs are so high and most schools will cremate the donated body when they are done and return it to the family at no cost.
Z8ob4 TIL during the late 80s and 90s the Dragon Quest series launched on weekends due to the fact that it was so popular that Japanese children would skip school to buy it - Japanese police noticed and asked publisher Square Enix to change the day the game came out so kids could get the game easier.
5YELQ TIL that potatoes can actually produce fruit! They look like tomatoes but are inedible.