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TIL that a few billion years ago an Earth day was only about 19 hours

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4kBBw TIL the fastest speed limit in North and South America is 85 mph (136.8 kph) on a 41-mile stretch of toll road, Texas State Highway 130, between SH 45 (South of Austin, Texas) and I-10 (East of Seguin, TX).
16Q8D TIL about the Pascaline, a mechanical calculator invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642 to help his father, who was supervisor of taxes in Rouen. The Pascaline added and subtracted two numbers, and multipled and divided through series of additions or substractions
780yb TIL there were no casualties in the 2022 Cyprus earthquake besides 1,600 chickens that died in a stampede caused by their panic
yVkkX TIL in 1990 Marge Simpson wrote a letter to First Lady Barbara Bush after Barbara said The Simpsons was ‘the dumbest thing [she] had ever seen’.
X0Prr TIL of research into genetically engineering humans for space and living on other planets. One method is epigenome engineering and would target genes advantageous for space. Another method is to combine the DNA of other species (i.e. tardigrades) with human cells to make humans better fit for space.