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TIL Navy Captain Chris Cassidy studied mathematics at the Naval Academy, ocean engineering at MIT, was a Navy SEAL for 11 years, and is an astronaut who spent 181 days in space.

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1a887 TIL a 2017 University of Iowa experiment concluded that pigeons can understand concepts of space and time, but not exactly how they do it. The birds “judged longer lines to also have longer duration and judged lines longer in duration to also be longer in length.”
69XM8 TIL that 2.7 billion cereal boxes are sold annually and 49% of Americans begin their day with a bowl of cereal
XEnmr TIL The Flintstones had a Cigarette Commercial in the 60's
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