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TIL: That due to the reduced gravity on the moon humans could walk on water.

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xyLb TIL Michael Jordan tipped a cocktail waitress in Vegas with a 5 dollar chip. Wayne Gretzky, who was also at the table, took it off her tray, gave it back to Michael, grabbed a 100 dollar chip from Michael’s stack and put it on her tray. Then he said, “That’s how we tip in Las Vegas, Michael.”
rNdR0 TIL Sitka spruce plantations have become a dominant forest type in Great Britain and Ireland, making up 25% of forest cover in the former and 52% in the latter
7rx8p TIL that the Mantis Shrimp has one of the best eyesights in the animal kingdom. It’s hexnocular vision is so powerful that it sees six images at once, sees in 12 colors, and can polarize its own light. Scientists are now modeling its capabilities to detect cancer and internal injuries in humans.
9Y0PQ TIL In 2017, 94 year old Nobel laureate Yang Zhenning gave up their American citizenship to become CAS Chinese academicians, the highest academic title in China. Yang renounced his American citizenship in 2015 and his father had never forgiven him for giving up his Chinese nationality
65Gm TIL that two of the moons in our solar system (Ganymede & Titan) are actually larger than the planet Mercury.