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TIL scientists filmed a couple having sex using a MRI

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p8WlZ TIL that X% of Y is the same as Y% of X, so for example 32% of 50 is the same as 50% of 32, which is 16.
xVEPo TIL if microwaves had clear glass windows you would be exposed to the harmful microwaves they emit. The metal mesh screen over the windows have large enough holes for our eyes to see inside, but small enough to block the harmful microwaves that would otherwise be emitted.
R4vl TIL The U.S. is the world’s only industrialized nation that taxes citizens who live overseas, even if their income is generated in a foreign country and they never return to America.
XEMmP TIL “The Simpsons” creator Matt Groening made a deliberate attempt to follow in the footsteps of Walt Disney. Groening said “I made Bart like Mickey Mouse in the sense that he would always be recognisable in silhouette.”
PWde TIL: Creationism’s monkey-typewriter argument was refuted by a 1980s computer program that randomly generated phrases while preserving the positions of individual letters. The computer wrote Hamlet in just 4.5 days.