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TIL Apple almost put MS Windows on iMacs instead of Mac OS

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oQZo TIL a planet shaped like a donut is theoretically possible
Ll5m TIL The time it takes our sun to orbit the center of the Milky Way is called a “Galactic Year” and is ~225 million Earth years. By that definition, dinosaurs went extinct last year, our sun is an adult at 18.4 years old, and the Big Bang happened just 61 years ago.
E1Wr0 TIL Troglomorphism is the morphological adaptation of an animal to living in the constant darkness of caves, characterised by features such as loss of pigment, reduced eyesight or blindness, and frequently with attenuated bodies and/or appendages.
VMrAZ TIL Phlegm in medieval medicine actually referred to the fluid made by white blood cells and platelets, as each of the four humors were based on the different layers that would form when blood is separated
vPyZL TIL "corn smut" is a food, and apparently tasty if you're a mushroom person.