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TIL the term “pixel” is short for “picture element”

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JXJ1 TIL that until 11,000 years ago milk was toxic to humans, that the only way we could consume it was lowering the lactose levels by turning it into cheese, that today only one third of adults are lactose tolerant, and that the closer you get to the equator the lower the tolerance level is.
rRrj1 TIL that some dogs won't eat food while their owners are away due to separation anxiety
ZpblY TIL that John Milius (writer and director of Apocalypse Now and Conan the Barbarian, respectively) was one of the original co-founders of the UFC.
Zmgo TIL a man once required surgery for what doctors call “penile fracture” after “running across the room and trying to penetrate his wife with a flying leap.”
VBYWQ TIL In 2010, the Russian Navy ordered the repair of a nuclear battlecruiser at a cost of $11 million dollars. Prosecutors later revealed that the actual cost of this work should have been $8 million and the other $3 million was stolen. As was discovered later, no repair work was carried at all.