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TIL it’s not only heavy atoms that decay – even a single proton can decay with a half-life of 1.67x10^34 years (a septillion times longer than the current age of the universe)

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46Za TIL that in Denmark, it is illegal to burn foreign flags, but not illegal to burn the Danish flag.
vBB TIL we have the technology to display small holograms very similar to the ones in Star Wars but full-color, although it is not as portable as it is in the movie.
D1B4p TIL: “Flamin’ Hot Cheetos” sent multiple kids to the ER worried about blood in their stool, but actually it was just the red food dye changing the color because of the amount they ate.
58np TIL there’s a poker hand called Anna Kournikova because “it looks great but never wins”
GOWg TIL Hawaii has a clock on a pole stopped at 1:04 am in a park as a memorial to the 61 people that died there in 1960 when a 20-ft tsunami hit the area, the clock was stopped by the wave.