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TIL that Abba turned down an offer of $1 billion to play 100 shows

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yQnJ8 TIL the Space Force emblem isn’t copied from Star Trek. The army airforce used the logo as far back as the 1940s. The starfleet logo was influenced by the military, not the other way around.
4XB8g TIL That while a cow eats basically no fat in its natural diet, bacteria digest the grass such that the cow absorbs 70% of its calories from fats
awydN TIL the first gravitational waves directly observed by LIGO required detecting a wobble in space time 1000 times smaller than the nucleus of an atom. This wobble was originally caused by black holes colliding 1.3 billion light years away.
W7Omo TIL that nearly 1 billion adults worldwide are estimated to have sleep apnea, with most cases going undiagnosed.
e0ZBD TIL the first unelected president of the united states was born with the surname King