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TIL If you come across a smartphone review video mere hours after its announcement, there's a 90% chance it's fake!

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Dkjp TIL If a human dies in outer space their body won’t decompose due to no present oxygen (a key component to decomposition). A corpse could drift in space looking fresh & new for millions of years.
6EjQ8 TIL of the more than 750,000 drafted in the American Civl War during 1863 and 1864, only about 46,000 actually saw battle. The remaining 85% avoided the war by literally running away, finding someone else to take their place, or paying the $300 commutation fee.
GogQ TIL Dog The Bounty Hunter has 12 children, 4 ex-wives (1 named La Fonda), and a murder conviction.
6EByl TIL about the Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP-1), a geothermal system that supplies heat directly from molten magma. It can currently generate 36 MW of electrical power. Magma power is regarded as one of the more promising future renewable sources of energy.
mLOM TIL that you can estimate Pi using a shotgun, with the Monte Carlo approximation