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TIL the Sea Cucumber breathes through its anus.
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TIL there are nearly 5,000 gods being worshiped by humanity.
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TIL that in addition to being the youngest EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) winner, fastest to achieve EGOT, and only EGOT winner twice over, songwriter Robert Lopez (who wrote music for such works as Disney's Frozen) broke the previous record of fastest to achieve EGOT previously held by...himself.
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TIL while making 2001 A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick wrote to a staffer asking if IBM were concerned that HAL was a psychotic computer. IBM wrote back explaining they were fine with it so long as IBM were not associated with any equipment failure.
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TIL of Buckshot Yankee, the worst cyber attack in US military history. In 2008, an employee found a USB drive in the parking lot of a DoD facility and plugged into his work computer. It took 14 months to purge from DoD networks.
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TIL Human fingers can feel objects as small as 13 nanometers. “This means that, if your finger was the size of the Earth, you could feel the difference between houses from cars.”