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TIL blue bunnies are a thing

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mx1DO Since the 18th century, male academics cite their own papers on average 56% more than their female counterparts.
xeWB TIL: that Keebler makes Girls Scout cookie knockoffs you can buy all year
XBQ TIL English astronomer James Jeans determined that if you placed a piece of the Sun’s core the size of the head of a pin on Earth, it would still generate enough heat to kill a person 84 miles away.
xVjBk TIL In 2001, Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean) was travelling to Kenya when the pilot of his private plane fainted at the controls. Atkinson took over and was able to keep the plane flying. Meanwhile he slapped the pilot several times which revived him, and the plane was landed safely.
ZDga TIL of Gregory W. Nemitz, a man who in 2000, registered land on the asteroid 433 Eros. The land contained $492 Quintilian worth of platinum. And, when NASA landed a probe on a place on the asteroid that he had called ‘Parking Space 29’, Nemitz sent NASA a $20 parking ticket.