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TIL that human subjects have been shown to grossly underestimate exponential growth. "Neither special instructions about the nature of exponential growth nor daily experience with growth processes enhanced the extrapolations."

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4XZMa TIL the Earth often has more than one moon. The Earth captures asteroids and they orbit our planet for about a year before being pulled away by the sun. The mini-moon 2020 CD3 left us on March 7th and was about the size of a compact car. The technical term is "temporarily captured object."
6ERml TIL that hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.
9wYdp TIL Galileo's middle finger is on display at the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy
4kKYw TIL that human bites contain so many germs that they’re actually septic.
L44Q TIL that Navy Seals who carried out the Bin Laden kill mission, forgot to bring a tape measure and had to measure Laden’s height by making a six feet tall Seal lie down next to Laden’s corpse.