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Til that since 2020, 37 out of the total 66 Nobel laureates have been Americans.

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M7QlA TIL that the popular belief in the United States that Daylight Savings Time was enacted FOR the benefit of farmers is wrong; farmers were actually some of the strongest opponents of its implementation.
AN77l TIL of the "German Tank Problem", a statistics theory that came from the Allies in WW2 attempting the estimate German tank production based on the sequential serial numbers of captured/destroyed German tanks.
XEVY8 TIL: Alligator Rivers, NT, Australia. whilst home to the largest of the reptiles, the Salt Water Crocodile, is void of any Alligators
b9o44 TIL That sleep washes away the toxins in your brain. This is why lack of sleep gives you a headache and can eventually kill you.
b9yka TIL Ryan Newman lead a campaign that may have just saved his own life. Newman crashed badly at the Daytona 500 back in 2003 prompting him to push for a reinforced bar across the windshield. In 2009 it became a regulation in NASCAR commonly referred to as the “Newman bar”.