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TIL sharks have been around MUCH longer than trees
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TIL USB drives get lighter as you store more data
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TIL the plot of the pilot episode of the show “The Lone Gunmen”, a spinoff of the X-Files, featured 3 conspiracy theorists thwarting a secret government plot to fly a plane into the World Trade Center and blame it on foreign interests in order to boost defense spending, it aired march 2001.
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TIL that in Brazil, you are not generally expected to be on time to social engagements, unless someone specifies “English Time”. Outside of Western Europe, US, Japan, and Korea, punctuality largely does not have high importance.
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TIL that a common male fertility test, Hamster Egg Penetration Test (HEPT) aka sperm penetration assay, uses hamster ovums in place of human ovums to test sperm’s ability to fertilize an egg.
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TIL that A tablespoon of soil has more living organisms than there are people on Earth right now.