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TIL the Fiddle and the Violin are the exact same instrument. The difference is the type of music you play with one or the other.

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78Rj7 TIL Californians are limited to 1.8 gallons of water per a minute per their shower heads. In my country I have a flow rate of 5 gallons a minute in a waterfall type shower head. How do Californians even stay clean with 1.8 when the federal rate is 2.5 gallons, way higher.
b6l17 TIL that the flag of Jamaica is currently the only national flag that does not contain a shade of the colors red, white, or blue.
AN0gB TIL that in 2014 researchers at MIT conducted a study that found participants were capable of extracting a picture's conceptual meaning after viewing it for as short as 13 ms, meaning the maximum framerate the human eye can see is about 77 frames per second.
yxDX TIL An Iranian F-4 Phantom tried to shoot down an U.S. surveillance drone in international airspace. An American F-22 Raptor flew under the F-4 undetected, checked out their weapons, pulled up on their left wing, switched to their radio frequency and said ‘you really ought to go home'”
eBv5 TIL that Seth MacFarlane spoke to Neil DeGrasse Tyson to make sure he got the night sky right in Ted