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TIL that the University of Iowa’s locker room for visiting football teams is completely painted pink

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pYv7p TIL That Star Trek takes place almost COMPLETELY within the Milky Way Galaxy. ONLY the Milky Way.
D1bvg TIL in 2016 Scientists observed the first case of a giant spider eating an opossum: Scientists from the University of Michigan were studying predation of small vertebrates by arthropods in the Peruvian Amazon when they came across a giant tarantula devouring an opossum, which was still twitching
WkMO8 TIL that if you hold in too many farts, the gas can be reabsorbed and then exhaled in your breath.
GYxQ1 TIL that it's very problematic to make an accurate and/or precise measurement of something as seemingly mundane as coastlines, due to the Coastline Paradox. Although the actual measurement cannot be theoretically infinite, coastlines are practically immeasurable in terms of standardized consistency.
oRNmo TIL the scientist in Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me With Scientist" really is a scientist -- Dolby hired UK nutritional scientist Dr. Magnus Pike to record the dialog