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TIL The total weight of all ants combined is greater than the total weight of all humans combined

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xVY8k TIL about the United States Metric Board, established in 1975 by an act of Congress to facilitate the transfer of the US to the metric system, the conversion was to be voluntary, which was not enough to effect the change, and it was disbanded by President Reagan in 1982.
GYwLN TIL Fighting is allowed in Hockey
rRb8e TIL Robert Johnson was so good with his guitar that some believe he sold his soul to devil for his talent
W7wXB TIL There were three found unused pitch concept levels for a DLC based on the famous "Steamboat willie" cartoon from 1928 in an early "deploy build" for the 2008 Video game LittleBigPlanet.
LkMep TIL printers print nearly invisible codes on your documents which contain information like the date and time it was printed and the printers serialnumber. And some engineers outsmarted this.