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TIL We actually live about 80 milliseconds in the past because that’s how long it takes our brains to process information.

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M7Dpa TIL that Corey Feldman voiced Donatello in the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie
rRnAM TIL of heat death, where the universe will eventually turn into a cold void with no interactions between particles, its ultimate death
eDa6 TIL The Treaty of Tripoli stated that “The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion” in 1796.
JWm1 TIL the term “pixel” is short for “picture element”
dDwBQ TIL about the 1886 short story “How the Mail Steamer Went Down in Mid Atlantic by a Survivor”, which served as a cautionary tale about the dangers of ships having too few lifeboats. Its author, William Thomas Stead, later died during the Titanic sinking in 1912.