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TIL that the most viscous liquid on earth is Pitch (or bitumen) and it took 69 years for one drop to fall

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X0Jlj TIL before the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was completely constructed, there were concerns among the public that its high-energy experiments would lead to the formation of micro black holes or strangelets, a dark-matter-like particle that can convert all matter it touches into strange matter.
b9Ed7 TIL that Big Bird from Sesame Street almost went on the Challenger space shuttle to teach kids about space. The reason he didn’t was because his costume was too big.
wZp1 TIL that originally, Monopoly was invented in 1903 to expose the unfairness of a social system where a small minority screw the majority of tenants.
oRxQo TIL Profiteering from academic "pay to publish" was fathered by a man known for pension fraud and passed on his labor exploitation skills to the next generation.
6EjM7 TIL despite not being involved with the company for decades, Steve Wozniak remains an employee at Apple and still gets a salary because nobody will fire him