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TIL Humans are closer to the size of the observable universe than they are to the smallest unit of measure (Planck length)

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WkmMd TIL that the DeLorean car, made famous by Back to the Future (1985) relied on the British Government for about $120 million of its $200 million start-up cost to build a plant in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The DeLorean Motor Company (DMC) went bankrupt in 1982 and approximately 9,000 cars were made.
69ynw TIL Mississippi did not complete ratification and certification of the 13th amendment (outlawing slavery) until 1995 and 2013
4XXvo Birds, whales, butterflies, and many other animals have an instinctive sense of which way points North. Even dogs tend to poop in line with the planet's magnetic poles. If they can sense magnetic fields, can we?
VBvY8 TIL that Oceanic feeling, coined by Romain Rolland in a 1927 letter to Sigmund Freud, describes a sensation of eternity and oneness with the world, seen as the source of religious energy.
7rbjx TIL that the world's oldest prosthetic device, an artificial wooden toe was found on a 3,000-year-old mummy of an Egyptian woman in 1997. Now, researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland have learned a great deal about how the toe functioned, what it's made of, and how it was fabricated.