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TIL that smokers have lower rates of Parkinson’s disease

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GyyQ TIL that Harvard earns enough money on interest from its endowment that it could offer free tuition to all students and still make profit on the interest.
a89Ro TIL on April Fool’s Day of 1957 the BBC showed a 3 minute report broadcast showcasing a Swiss family harvesting spaghetti from their family spaghetti tree convincing numerous British people that spaghetti grew on trees.
49Y6 TIL the world’s fastest supercomputer (TH-2) requires 24 million Watts of power, but still needs to be about 100,000 times faster to match our 20 Watt brain.
yVKka TIL Electric eels NEED to breathe air
xWN5 TIL genius mathematician, philosopher and logician Kurt Gödel eventually starved to death, after his wife was hospitalised and he did not trust eating food prepared by anyone else