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TIL Sardine refers only to a fish’s size, not its species

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JYnOQ TIL A woman had her body frozen and sliced into 2700 pieces so they could reconstruct her digitally for science
Xglj TIL Estonia is the first country to offer Digital Citizenship
xVYj0 TIL, The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) propels Protons so quickly, that it takes less than 90 Microseconds for a Proton to travel 26.7 km (16.6m) around the main ring. In just one full second, a Proton will make 11,245 revolutions.
rNJkw TIL that by the third and fourth centuries most Roman citizens had entirely abandoned using parental given names (praenomen). Instead, they used clan names (nomen) or nicknames (cognomen)
DQPXv TIL one bad apple in a bunch of apples will release ethylene and ruin all the other apples in the bunch.