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TIL that the thickness of the Earth's atmosphere can be likened to the thickness of the skin of an apple.

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PrZE TIL Dr. Soren Sorensen developed the pH scale in order to test the acidity of beer to ultimately make better beer.
nJrd TIL babies born to mothers who used heroin while pregnant are given tinctures of opium to treat their withdrawal
kg5g TIL During WW2 in Africa, US tanks were outmatched by superior German tanks. So the US used Jeeps with machine guns to go behind enemy lines to destroy the fuel trucks supplying gas to the German tanks thereby disabling them.
7lrX TIL Many of the techniques pioneered by slave owners in the 1800s are widely used in business management today.
d8Ear TIL that hummingbirds are only found in the Americas (and not in the rest of the world), but the oldest known hummingbird was actually a fossil collected in Germany.