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TIL Engineers have already managed to design a machine that can make a better version of itself. In a simple test, they couldn’t even understand how the final iteration worked.

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4rRg TIL That taking NSAIDs before smoking marijuana can negate the memory-loss associated with pot but retain all the medical benefits of THC
PYXjG TIL "micellar water" is actually just "soapy water" (in name and function)
4XXNb TIL The suns diameter is 864,000 miles & There are 86,400 seconds in a day on earth.
1aWnP TIL that Apollo Astronaut James Irwin told his mother he was gonna be the first man on the moon when he was 12 years old, he ended up being the 8th.
Y7VaW TIL that the Giotto spacecraft, whose aim was to study Halley's comet as it passed close to Earth in 1986, takes its name from the Italian painter Giotto di Bondone, who in 1305 depicted the star of Bethlehem as a comet in painting his Adoration of the Magi. Halley passed close to Earth in 1301.