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TIL if the sun were the size of a basketball the nearest star would be over 4000 miles away

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Y6jZ TIL in “A.I. Artificial Intelligence”, child actor Haley Joel Osment suggested to Steven Spielberg that to portray an Android well he shouldn’t blink. Osment does not blink once during the entire film.
XoBE TIL that Nikola Tesla was voluntarily chaste, despite numerous women “vying for his affections… some even madly in love with him”, because he believed sex inhibited his abilities to think in a scientific manner
QNJod TIL there's a food preserving technology called High Pressure Processing that puts food under 6000 bars of pressure and kills the bacteria by crushing it under the huge pressure, even at cold temperatures. It is widely used for store bought Guacamole.