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TIL baseball legend Ted Williams’ body is frozen in liquid nitrogen in the hopes that future technology may someday be able to revive him

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PYDKV TIL rock paper scissors is a game that goes back 2000 years to ancient Han China. The game spread throughout Asia with various characters, often animals, replacing the desk supplies we know today. In a version, a village chief is beaten by a fox, who is beaten by a hunter, who is beaten by the chief
DvrV TIL Dogs are the only non-primate species that seeks to make eye contact with humans
gMB9D Today I learned that an advanced civilization called the Cahokia once existed along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers in the modern day United States
jN6dp "If an asteroid hits the moon, it will just get another crater," says Gareth Wynn-Williams, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii. It would take a moon-size object to move the moon, says Clark Chapman, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, and most likely the moon wouldn't survive. Hitting it with a much larger, denser object would be like whacking an egg with a golf club.
GA5jE TIL the Moon has a smell—like burnt gunpowder. Apollo astronauts noticed it after taking off their helmets inside the lander. The weird part? Lunar dust has nothing in common with gunpowder. Scientists think it reacts with oxygen, but the smell disappears on Earth