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TIL Bill Nye The Science Guy, holds no advanced degrees (other then honorary)

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Myr7 TIL that archaeology shows humans living in the Americas long before the formation of the Bering Straight Land Bridge.
6EQXm TIL of the Skylab Mutiny: in 1973 the crew of the skylab space station turned off all communications with NASA after being over-worked and spent the day relaxing and looking at the Earth. It is the only strike to occur in space.
XOB6 TIL that in 1861 the entire student body of Ole Miss enlisted in the Confederate Army, formed its own company, and suffered a 100% casualty rate.
ep9D6 TIL that while a kilogram is defined by a physcal object (the only object in the world that weighs exactly 1kg), a pound is legally defined as exactly 0.45359237 kilograms
VMYa0 TIL in Korea, everyone is 1 from the time they are born. And everyone gets a year older on New Year’s day. So your Korean age is always either one or two years older than your Western age.