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TIL that the ending of Lilo and Stich was changed due to the terror attacks in 9/11

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Q57e TIL that all even numbers (except 2) can be expressed as the sum of 2 prime numbers, a rule known as Goldbach’s Conjecture
b6Ox4 TIL in 2009, Benjamin Moody cracked the signing key to a TI-83+ calculator in 73 days on a 1.9 GHz dual-core processor, allowing users to flash their own OS. In 1999 same algorithm required a Cray supercomputer and 8000 MIPS-years of computing time to factorize a similar 512-bit key.
0deoA TIL that moose, elephants, armadillos, kangaroos, and even sloths and camels can swim.
aepM TIL: In a report from 2013, most of the funds raised by the NFL don’t fund cancer research. In the end, after everybody has taken their cut, only 8.01% of money spent on pink NFL merchandise is actually going towards cancer research.
oRYWW TIL about the Axis of evil in Cosmology. It’s the correlation between the plane of the Solar System and aspects of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and gives the plane of the Solar System and hence the location of Earth a greater significance than is expected by chance.