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TIL that Point Nemo, the point on earth that is furthest from any coast, is so remote that sometimes the closest human beings are the astronauts aboard the International Space Station as it passes overhead.

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XExpE TIL that Yamaha's musical instruments wing works with Lexus and other car manufacturers on fine tuning the sound their engines produce
4kd9a TIL about the Paria diving tragedy, where five divers were sucked into an underwater oil pipeline. Only one of the men made it out alive, but no rescue attempts were made to save the other four divers who were still alive. They tragically died inside the pipe.
R7R9w Let’s say you’re doing 100 mph in a car and suddenly a downed tree, stopped the car, or person appears in the road up ahead and you need to slam on the brakes. How much more dangerous is that situation than when you’re doing 70 mph? Your intuition might tell you that 100 mph is only 30% more than 70 mph. But as this video shows, the important factor in stopping a car (or what happens to the car when it collides with something else) does not speed but energy, which increases at the square of speed. In other words, going from 70 mph to 100 mph more than doubles your energy…and going from 55 to 100 more than triples it.
K7w6 TIL during kidney transplants, the bad kidneys are not usually removed. Instead, the new kidney is put into the pelvis.
OGg8g TIL the official name for Clippy (Microsoft’s office assistant) is actually Clippit