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TIL Your phone’s PIN/passcode is protected by the 5th Amendment

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d8WdK TIL about the Doomsday Algorithm - a method to mentally calculate the day of the week given any date based on the fact that 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12 all occur on the same day of the week regardless of the year.
eRwn TIL that coconut water is Isotonic and Sterile (provided that the husk is intact), for this reason, in undeveloped countries it has been injected directly into the blood stream as a substitute for an IV bag.
NyJM TIL The F-22 Raptor’s engines are designed to allow standard maintenance using just six common tools available at commercial hardware stores
076A TIL there is a “reverse anorexia” causing (primarily) men with already muscular bodies to feel too small.
GAP7J TIL that even if a Nuclear Winter occurred, it would be followed by a Nuclear Summer