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TIL In 2005 canadians campaigned to ban comic sans

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Q5XX TIL Human fingers can feel objects as small as 13 nanometers. “This means that if your finger were the size of the Earth you could feel the difference between houses and cars.”
8aNbG TIL that Malaria killed ~10k troops in the US Civil War
9lMG TIL that you can survive in space without a spacesuit for around 2 minutes, and the thing that kills you isn’t the change in pressure, it’s simply the lack of oxygen.
5Vlkp TIL we've had electric cars since the late 1800s. Some early electric cars could go as fast as 25mph and lasted 50 miles without needing a recharge.
Lk0wm TIL that, before elevators, more expensive hotel rooms were at the bottom