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TIL If the human eye were a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.

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94eG TIL Cicada 3301 is an anonymous organization that on three occasions has posted a set of complex puzzles to recruit capable cryptanalysts from the public. It has been called “the most elaborate and mysterious puzzle of the internet age”.
9YX9B TIL: Said to be the highest-elevation road in the US, Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park in places is over 12,100 feet up. In 1931, the National Park Service head said. "You will have the whole sweep of the Rockies before you in all directions."
8a0Z4 TIL about a Russian woman who gave birth to a total of 69 children, making her the most prolific mother ever.
nWGjB TIL that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Schrieffer (of superconducting BCS theory fame) was sentenced to two years in prison for vehicular manslaughter, when he fell asleep behind the wheel of his sports car going over 100 mph
mNyy TIL that an Australian study has found that homework is of little to no academic value to students in elementary and junior high schools.