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TIL:Toast falling off a plate lands butter-side down almost 2/3 of the time.It’s nothing to do with one side being buttered, its that as the toast goes over the edge of the plate, it starts to rotate, but the spin-rate is too slow to bring the butter-side up again by the time it hits the floor

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b95LE TIL of the fish kick, a technique in swimming where the swimmer turns sideways and mimics the motion of an eel. It is arguably the fastest way to swim and was once famously used in the 2000 Olympics by Misty Hyman to win the 200m butterfly. However, this kick is rarely used owing to its difficulty.
R7eG1 TIL Why it's Impossible to Accurately Measure a Coastline. Coastlines are like fractals--the further you zoom in, the more complex it gets.
oBDYR TIL - In 2007, Damian Hirst unveiled “For the Love of God” A platinum cast of an 18th century human skull, encrusted with 8,601 flawless diamonds. The work's title was supposedly inspired by Hirst's mother, who once asked, "For the love of God, what are you going to do next?"
eb9J TIL: There is an island known as “Just Room Enough Island” that has just enough room for a tree and a house.
6EMVQ TIL The concept for the internet started in the 1960s, when MIT’s J.C.R. Licklider popularized the idea of an “Intergalactic Network” of computers, computer scientists then developed the concept of “packet switching,” a method for effectively transmitting electronic data