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TIL the human eye only needs 5 photons to elicit visual experience.

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0wN81 TIL Pangaea was not the first supercontinent. That honor goes to the billion year old landmass known as Rodinia. The continents routinely split apart and come back together, a process known as the supercontinent cycle.
W79B8 TIL when the town of Exeter, Massachusetts renamed itself to honor Benjamin Franklin in 1778, they asked Franklin to donate a bell to the town church. Franklin responded with a donation of books instead, which formed the founding collection of America's first public library.
pY5pe TIL: The Pitch Drop Experiment, the World's Longest Running Science Experiment, Has Been Going for Over 90 Years and Has Only Been Observed Live 9 Times.
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