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TIL Your brain is eating itself all the time

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YjrG TIL that Russian cosmonauts used to carry a handheld, triple barreled shotgun with a fold out machete into space to fight off bears and wolves when they landed.
d84pr TIL that Wisconsin has the same number of bars as California despite a population that’s 85% smaller. 1 bar for every 1,862 residents compared to California’s 1 for every 11,962 residents.
EZ9V TIL Student tuition at Ivy League schools is essentially “Pay what you can,” and free for students whose families make less than $60K/year; the difference is funded by an endowment of donations.
VBnjZ TIL about Kessler syndrome, the scenario where there are so many objects in low Earth orbit that they collide with each other and create even more debris. In response, the FCC requires all satellites to enter a "graveyard orbit" at the end of their operational lives.
KErJ TIL that in 2011, a 14 year-old amateur astronomer from Canada proved that Jupiter is bright enough to cast shadows on Earth.