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TIL that Amazon named a building after its first customer who spent $27

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WkZ6N TIL Swedish elk (moose to North Americans) get drunk on fermenting apples and sometimes get stuck in trees
R7Y4 TIL there is a star that should not exist. Meet Caffau’s star, aka SDSS J102915+172927!
OoVvg Researchers from University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Arizona State University found that if a car is parked in the sun on a summer day, the interior temperature can reach 116 degrees F. and the dashboard may exceed 165 degrees F. in approximately one hour — the time it can take for a young child trapped in a car to suffer fatal injuries.
LQyAv TIL that in Gaines v. Canada. When African-American lawyer Charles Houston argued before the Supreme Court. Justice McReynolds turned his chair backward. McReynolds also often left the bench, when a woman lawyer rose to present a case.
yVene TIL The human body contains trillions of microorganisms — outnumbering human cells by 10 to 1 in a humanbody.