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TIL that Grapple is simply just an apple soaked in Methyl Anthranilate (artifical grape flavoring).

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ZpVmG TIL that the Parker Solar Probe is going 700000 kph so it would take 33 minutes to reach the Moon From Earth.
p86m8 TIL The answer to 'how fat do you need to be to stop a bullet?' depends on the gun. A 9mm bullet from a handgun will penetrate 60cm of human fat tissue. A bullet from an AK47 can shoot through a brick wall. A morbidly obese 125kg person can have around 60cm of fat at the thickest point.
m1VOP TIL that Anna Sueangam-iam, Miss Thailand 2022, wore a dress made out of soda tab as a homage to her father who worked as a garbage collector
M7AeB TIL that the last Confederate forces surrendered six months after the Civil War ended after the captain of a rogue commerce raider, the CSS Shenandoah, circumnavigated the globe to finally hand over his ship to the mayor of Liverpool, England
4k1NX TIL that no Weapons-of-Mass-Destruction (WMD) where found in Iraq, yet 33% of Fox viewers believed WMDs were found and were the justification for the invasion of Iraq post-911.