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TIL Even space debris that is much too small to detect and track can cause huge amounts of damage due to the high velocities that objects travel in space.

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kJaN7 TIL that nearly 16,000 COVID cases went unreported in England because Public Health England used a legacy .xls Excel spreadsheet file that can only handle up to 65536 rows to record cases instead of a proper database.
lwaV TIL, in 2013, an expedition to recover bodies from a tugboat sunk at 30 meter depth, found one survivor trapped in an air bubble, in pitch black, after 3 days
jNkVX TIL humans struggle to understand true randomness
d8NvK TIL that Charles Kelman, a pioneer of phacoemulsification, a modern cataract surgery method, was also a successful jazz musician, entertainer and Broadway producer. He regularly appeared on TV shows in the 70's and 80's in part to promote his surgical innovations.
awpwJ TIL: “Shoeless” Joe Jackson was illiterate. In restaurants, rather than ask someone to read the menu to him, he would wait until his teammates ordered and then order one of the items that he heard.