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TIL that "Master" is an honorific used to address boys that are too young to be called "Mister".

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awyDJ TIL Leicester physics graduates concluded that Star Trek's tribbles would fill the USS Enterprise in 4.5 days. Using Spock's estimate that each tribble can birth 10 offspring in 12 hrs. amounting to 1,777,561 tribbles in 3 days they added an exponential growth rate of 18.4×109 tribbles.
XvNr TIL the number people are most likely to state when asked to give a random number between 0 and 100 is 37.
9W6 TIL that it is possible to donate spare processing power on your computer to help the CERN’s LHC process data.
Db0P TIL following the attacks of 9/11, executives were unsure if it was too soon to air SNL. Lorne Michaels asked the mayor of NYC “can we be funny?” and the Mayor replied “why start now?”
W7jv9 TIL The first American woman to vote was Lydia Taft. In 1756, she received the legal right to vote at a town meeting in Massachusetts