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TIL that Christopher Columbus correctly predicted an eclipse to trick the native inhabitants of Jamaica into giving him food and supplies…

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ArMn TIL there are giant clouds of alcohol floating in space. Near the constellation of Aquila, there’s a cloud 1000 times the diameter of our solar system with enough ethyl alcohol to fill 400 trillion trillion pints of beer. Every person would have to drink 300,000 pints each day for one billion years.
dDXl7 TIL The 10k steps a day benchmark was actually just a marketing campaign from a Japanese company called Yamasa who made the first wearable pedometer
KY9rQ TIL that a year after he accidentally solved two famously unsolved statistical problems by mistaking them for homework, George Dantzig's same two proofs were accepted as his thesis; his 'unsolved problem' story loosely served as the setup for the plot of Good Will Hunting.
78WO7 TIL toilet paper isn’t a standard use item in India. Instead, it’s considered more hygienic to splash yourself with water using your bare hands for cleanup
0wdmN TIL that the first humans were apparently Chinese - Peking man was the missing link between ancient ape and modern humans. However, most of the fossil fragments of the Peking man vanished after 1941