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TIL about lorentz transformations are very easy to visualize.

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lonla TIL that road gritters (road salters) in Scotland have names like ‘Gritty Gritty Bang Bang’ and ‘Sir Salter Scott’ and you can track them live...
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7rLP7 TIL lobsters have the enzyme called "telomerase" which stops DNA strands called "telomeres" from damage as new cells are made. Other organisms' telomeres erode with age, but lobsters can theoretically live forever, because their ability to create perfect copies of cells never erodes.
RB51 TIL Texas abolished “Last Meal” before execution because a prisoner, Lawrence Russell Brewer, requested a 5 course meal and ate nothing of it because he “wasn’t hungry after all”