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TIL Lee Sang-hyeok, known professionally as Faker, is a professional League of Legends player who is widely regarded as the best player in the game's history, often being referred to as the "Michael Jordan of esports" and having won more professional titles than anyone else who plays the game.

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OMkX TIL A Soviet probe, “Luna 15”, crashed into the surface of the moon while Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were still on it.
Wk1wd TIL that bees will not build in a gap that is very specifically 6-9 mm in width (but they WILL build in larger or smaller spaces). This discovery, called "bee space", made modern beehives with removeable "frames" for honeycomb possible; otherwise, the bees would just cement everything together.
KOeXB TIL that in the 1930s, the first pregnancy tests were done through injecting a woman’s urine into an infantile mouse, which would then be dissected so its ovaries can be inspected. If the woman was pregnant, the mouse would show signs of ovulation.
R7xvl TIL Earths relationship with the Moon is bound unbelievably to the golden ratio. If Earths radius = 1 and the moon equals 0.272 that makes 1.272 (square root of phi). Draw a triangle with one line at a value of 1 and the second at a value of 1.272 and then hypotenuse (third line) is 1.618 or phi
85lG TIL in 1956 there was a military Vespa made for paratroopers