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TIL We're taller in the morning than in the evening due to gravity compressing the cartilage in our spines when we stand up , sit , etc.

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XPj TIL that the USMC is investigating the use of drop pods from space to deploy to any place on earth.
QaJa TIL that actor Chris Pratt used to live on a beach in Hawaii where he “camped, smoked a bunch of weed, and drank and worked just enough to cover gas and food and fishing supplies.”
VMndG TIL Nikola Tesla used Sanskrit words in his descriptions of natural phenomena. After meeting Swami Vivekananda, Tesla began using the words 'Akasha', 'Prana', and the concept of a luminiferous ether to describe the source, existence and construction of matter.
8aMAZ TIL during WWI all Army recruits underwent intelligence testing, the largest mass testing that had ever been attempted before. By the end of the war, close to 2 million soldiers had been tested. As a result of the tests roughly half of the recruits were classified at or below the level of "moron"
nWEWP TIL that the likely reason Italians "speak" with their hands, is that centuries ago gesticulating helped them communicate with others who spoke different local dialects.