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TIL Richard Nixon’s daughter married Dwight Eisenhower’s grandson.

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nmbW TIL that Cameron Lyle of the University of New Hampshire is ending his college athletics career and will miss the conference championship in order to donate bone marrow and save a strangers life. He is a 1 in 5,000,000 perfect match.
jkGQ TIL scientists have found that the perception of time varies as a function of mass & metabolic rate across species. Smaller animals w/ faster metabolisms can respond to visual stimuli at a faster rate b/c they perceive movements & events to unfold more slowly (like bullet dodging in the Matrix).
WkjdX TIL an unspayed cat is called a “queen”
dDjjB TIL the official demonym for someone from the state of Indiana is “Hoosier”.
aRm0 TIL Steve Jobs wanted to hide a man wearing a fedora in the first Mac. Dubbed “Mr. Macintosh,” the character would appear after opening the menu bar several thousand times then quickly disappear, leaving users to question their sanity. The idea was scrapped due to the Mac’s paltry 128KB of RAM.