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TIL Raw Oysters Are Still Alive When You Eat Them

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JYXw4 TIL fire will burn in a spherical shape In microgravity environments, like space, because without gravity oxygen diffuses with random oxygen molecules drifting into the fire. Absent the upward flow of hot air, fires in microgravity will stay spherical and small
N7JP6 TIL that NASCAR oval tracks are run counterclockwise because the Brits run their horse races clockwise and America runs left to spite the king.
l7807 TIL that the Sega Saturn was Sega's best-selling console in Japan and even outsold the Nintendo 64 in that region
m1YmP TIL the first person to earn a PhD in computer science in the United States was a Mary Kenneth Keller, a Catholic nun
DQ04J TIL Korean astronauts eat a version of kimchi that has been radiated to kill all of the microorganisms