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TIL Earth is struck by approximately 1 septillion asteroids daily. (That’s 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 asteroids.)

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Oo5Z6 TIL that in 1998 USA, more fast-food employees were murdered on the job than police officers.
N7mEN TIL 6 out of 10 cars with the highest safety complaint rates in the US are Chrysler products.
R7pjj TIL of the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant. It was much closer to the epicenter of the 2011 Earthquake than the Fukushima Power Plant, yet it sustained only minor damage and even housed tsunami evacuees. It's safety is credited to engineer Hirai Yanosuke who insisted it have a 14m (46FT) tall sea wall
4XlOa Today I Learned that a woman could experience orgasm from brushing her teeth. Unfortunately, she thought that this was due to her beging possessed by demons and ended up using mouthwash more frequently for her oral hygiene
EjRW TIL that Bubbles the Chimp (who once was famously Michael Jackson’s pet) is alive and well, living in a Florida sanctuary for retired apes - and that he HATES cameras these days