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TIL that your taste buds have a lifespan or around 10 to 14 days & your body is constantly replacing them

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Y7E1B TIL that NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer had far less processing power than a simple modern calculator
j6dVR TIL that during the Mexican-American War, General Gideon Pillow ordered the dirt excavated from a ditch to be piled on the wrong side.
EGp7 TIL Japan successfully landed an unmanned spacecraft on an asteroid, collected samples in 2005. The probe returned to earth in 2010.
yQnwM TIL about Britches, an infant monkey who was taken from his mother shortly after birth and had his eyes sewn shut, so researchers could study his blindness. He was broken out by animal rights activists.
D1oag TIL that some Australian Aboriginal languages rely completely on cardinal directions to describe position— "the spider is on your northeast-facing leg" instead of "the spider is on your left leg". Speakers of these languages tend to be far better spatial navigators than speakers of other languages.