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TIL there's a labour union for Youtubers

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eoPJ TIL that the coefficient of friction of a banana on hardwood flooring is 0.083, while ice has a coefficient of friction of 0.05, making a banana almost as slippery as ice.
QLxE TIL In 4 out of 10 of the UK’s largest airports, it is cheaper to park a light aircraft for 24 hours than to park your car
MelAa TIL Johannes Kepler wrote the world's first genuine science fiction in 1609. The novel advanced a Copernican model of the universe, described gravity decades before Newton, envisioned speech synthesis centuries before computers, and presaged space travel three hundred years before the Moon landing.
gMW5X TIL of the "World's Littlest Skyscraper" scam committed on Wichita Falls, Texas. The designer said the building would be 480 in height. Investors assumed it was 480 feet not 480 inches and soon realized they invested $200,000 in a 4 storey building. They lost in court and the builder kept the money.
m1KXp TIL: England had a trade deficit with China over tea, so they grew opium in India and illegally sold it in China, leading to the Opium Wars