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TIL the record for most number of leaves grown on a clover is 63

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Z8YDQ TIL in 1958 A chemical operator at Los Alamos was killed after plutonium in a mixing tank went supercritical, exposing him to over 30Gy of hard radiation. After 24 hours his bone marrow contained no red blood cells
8eBAG TIL that the F-22 Raptor took so long to develop, that the CPUs for its in flight computer had become obsolete by three generations by the time the first production jet flew in 1997, resulting in even further delays as a new flight computer had to be designed based on the PowerPC processor.
ADx8n TIL: Starbucks lost a case against a Pakistani man who owned a rip off cafe named Sattar Buksh. with a similar logo. Starbucks filed a lawsuit against the cafe owner. Turned out Starbucks lost the case because the owner name was Sattar Buksh and the logo actually included his face.
169x7 TIL about keystone species, which have a disproportionally high impact on their environment when compared to their numbers
b681E TIL there exists a bat 29-33 mm in length and weighs only 2 g