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m1Zev TIL A study on the "fracture and flow" of Oreo cookies exists, in which researchers tried to split apart Oreo cookies to achieve an even distribution of cream on both halves. The researchers involved dubbed the study "Oreology".
MV8m TIL - In a nearby galaxy an object was found travelling 4x the speed of light. The object started sending out radio waves, and the emission does not look like anything seen anywhere in the known universe.
OoX41 TIL that a US Navy commissioned ship is currently captured by North Korea. The USS Pueblo is still listed in the active roster.
KON6w TIL that Romania is the country with the highest rate of home ownership in he world: more than 96% of the population owns a house or an apartment. At the beginning of the 1990s, after the fall of the Communist party, the state sold each tenant the house he or she occupied at a very low cost.
9YgyQ TIL GDP was invented just 86 years ago.