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TIL The LIGO gravitational wave detector can detect a change in a 4km beam of less than 1/10,000 the diameter of a proton.

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knZd TIL that “Koko, a female gorilla trained in sign language, once tore a steel sink out of its moorings. When her handlers confronted her, Koko signed ‘cat did it’ and pointed at her innocent pet kitten.”
yQ4ma TIL one second of the sun's energy is enough to supply earth's current energy consumption for 300,000 years.
AD0yg TIL the Roadrunner not only eats rattlesnakes, but they beat the absolute shit out of them before they eat them.
JYmDB TIL opossums have pouches not unlike a kangaroo's, and can feed on average a litter of 13 infants within it
W7jwB TIL No federal legislation specifically opposing lynching was passed in the US until 2022