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TIL If you weighed 100 pounds at the north pole on a spring scale, at the equator you would weigh 99.65 pounds, or 5.5 ounces less. Your mass, in grams, would stay the same because 'grams' is a measure of the resistance of a body to being moved and has nothing to do with acceleration or gravity.

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78nB7 TIL in September 2012, 88 year-old Ilda Vitor Maciel was killed in a Rio de Janeiro clinic after nurses injected her IV with soup; a month later, 80 year-old Palmerina Pires Ribeiro was killed in Rio de Janeiro when a nurse injected her IV with coffee. The cases are unrelated.
rNEno TIL that the Rambo lunchbox by Thermos in 1985 marked the end of the metal lunchbox era. Manufacturers switched to making lunchboxes with plastic because it was cheaper and because a group of mothers in Florida complained that metal lunchboxes were being used by children as weapons.
N7MoN TIL: Border Collies are the valedictorians of the dog world, these herders took the top spot in in Stanley Coren's intelligence rankings, meaning most can learn a new command in under five seconds and follow it at least 95% of the time
mMZY TIL it’s a common misconception that PG-13 films are only allowed one “F-bomb,” and that 2 or more make it R. This isn’t true, as a movie with multiple uses of the word can still be PG-13 if the board votes that way with a 2/3 majority. (See page 8, top)
9wVRm TIL Big Bird was nearly a passenger on the doomed Challenger