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TIL You literally cannot be more than 115 miles from a McDonald’s in the contiguous USA.

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oRR7Y TIL 1950s Rocker Little Richard died at age 87 of bone cancer in 2020. He had a near-fatal car accident in 1985, hip surgery confined him to a wheelchair in 2009, and declared he was done from performing in 2013
av8M TIL in 2010, Sandra Bullock accepted her Golden Raspberry Award in person for Worst Actress for her role in All About Steve. The following night, Bullock won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Blind Side.
w6V6 TIL that in 2012, IBM created a short film titled, “A Boy And His Atom,” using stop-motion of individual Carbon atoms magnified at over 100,000,000 times. Guinness World Records has verified it as “The World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Film.”
kOGkB TIL of penis fencing, a mating behavior in hermaphroditic species of flatworm. Two flatworm “fight” and try to penetrate the other's epidermis and inject sperm into them (aka "traumatic insemination"). The loser becomes fertilized and is known as the "mother", while the victor becomes the "father"
gMvLy TIL that a Swiss company called Climeworks has a machine that can remove carbon dioxide from the air, and they aren't the only company doing so. Theoretically enough of these machines could reduce the CO2 ppm to pre industrial revolution levels.