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TIL That if an atom was the size of our Solar System, then a neutrino to scale would be the size of a golf ball.

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XWPR TIL that Danny DeVito was hired for TV Show Taxi after he came in for the audition during a long casting process and said “Which of you guys wrote this shit”
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OopZ7 TIL that for much of the 20th century, the US state of Oklahoma practiced blatant sexism when it came to alcohol: women were allowed to drink 3.2% beer at 18 and everything else at 21, whereas men weren't allowed to drink anything at all until 21.