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TIL Sloths can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes (4x more than dolphins for example)

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nxXd TIL the reason that some people get embarrassed watching other people do cringeworthy things and others don’t has to do with how empathetic the person is.
xVMBB TIL: the world's first HD 6DoF video (VR video where you can walk around like in a game) was sized at 3GB per frame. 10 minutes of video would be 1800GB.
woVmE TIL most tornados occur between 3pm and 7pm
pY7XZ TIL Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star in Orion that is one of the largest and most luminous stars in our galaxy. It exhibits variations in brightness due to surface pulsations and its size is rapidly decreasing, which has led to speculation that it may soon undergo a supernova explosion.
V5Zk TIL the donating public, not big foundations or corporations, is responsible for roughly 90% of all donations in the US