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TIL Newsweek has not used fact-checkers since 1996.

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pK1e TIL - Probes and other spacecraft have a one in a billion chance of hitting something in the asteroid belt due to the low density of it.
8aWxb TIL of Peter Buxtun, an epidemiologist at the Public Health Service who after filing two protests with his superiors was the man who blew the whistle on the Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiment.t It would become front page news in the New York Times the next day and congressional hearings would be called.
dE9 TIL “Jesus” and “Joshua” are the same name in Greek. Jesus Christ means “Joshua the Annointed”
a8V10 TIL Some biochemical reactions in human cells would take up to 1 trillion years to complete naturally — about 100 times longer than the lifetime of the universe. Enzymes perform these reactions in 10 milliseconds.
e0jkb TIL that the RUSH song "Red Barchetta" was based on a Sci Fi story of a near future where drivers of large, heavy and very crash worthy modern cars would hunt drivers of older, more fragile conventional cars and crash into them for sport and drive away unscathed.