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TIL that the roller coaster Hundeprutterutchebane is Danish for Dog-Fart Roller Coaster

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5Yjlk TIL the moon has a barely discernible atmosphere compared to the Earth, which is why the moon is covered in impact craters from passing meteorites & space debris when compared to the Earth, where most spacial detritus burns up before impact.
wLZG6 TIL The reason why we view neanderthals as hunched over and degenerate is that the first skeleton to be found was arthritic.
R9G1 TIL that the Wright Brothers achieved flight in a plane that cost roughly $1,000 to build. In the race to fly, they beat Samuel Pierpont Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian, who failed to achieve a successful flight, despite having $50,000 of government funding put toward his attempts.
VM5VD TIL Your computer's RAM has to constantly remind itself of the data it's holding due to capacitor leakage. This is the main reason why it's slower for the CPU to use compared to on-die memory circuits.
OGBng TIL of someone even more insane than Leonid Rogozov, the surgeon in Antarctica who removed his own Appendix... Jock McLaren only had veterinary experience and did the same thing in 1944, except without any anesthesia at all and just a pocket knife and mirror.