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TIL CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”

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kZr1 TIL that Lemmy Kilmister co-wrote Ozzy Osbourne’s hit song “Mama I’m Coming Home,” stating that he made more royalties from that song than in 15 years in Motorhead
R7DO8 TIL That former astronaut Scott Parazynski took a moon rock to the top of Mount Everest. He took the moon rock and a rock from the top of Mount Everest and gave them to then current astronaut George Zamka. He then took both rocks into space on the International Space Station.
xVP0o TIL: Sleeping less than the recommended eight hours a night is associated with intrusive, repetitive thoughts like those seen in anxiety or depression
R7QOj TIL that scientists speculate Caesarian Sections are changing human evolution. A new study suggests that an increasingly common reason women undergo C-sections is because their pelvis is too narrow, this number is up 10-20% from the 1960s.
8e8Ya TIL that Supermarket apples can be a year old