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TIL Radiation is often measured as “banana equivalent doses,” where 1 dose is the amount of radioactivity in a banana.

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ADVm4 TIL about the Makapansgat Pebble, a waterworn piece of Jasper that unmistakably resembles a human face. This pebble was carried a great distance to a South African cave by an Australopithecus hominid around 3,000,000 years ago. It is the earliest known evidence for human visual-symbolic thought.
LkyNP TIL Chicago is named the Windy City because in the mid 1800’s, journalists thought that the well to do and politicians were “windbags” that only cared about money.
OoONg Today I learned that the youngest person to discover a supernova was a ten year old Canadian girl named Kathryn Aurora Gray.
rRnDM TIL The University of Melbourne offers a subject on Eurovision.
0dZGj TIL that in 1997, Coldplay invited Tim Rice-Oxley to be their keyboardist. He declined, and instead went on to sell 13 million albums as primary songwriter for the band Keane.