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TIL the Japanese voted instant noodles their best invention of the 20th Century

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ADLAl High-speed video imaging colored to reveal the two main components of a sneeze show a shower of larger droplets, green, whose trajectories can extend up to two meters from the person sneezing, yellow, and a cloud, red, made of a mixture of smaller droplets suspended in moist, warm gas. Pathogen-bearing droplets can be suspended in the air for not just seconds, but minutes, and can travel up to 27 feet.
1aWnP TIL that Apollo Astronaut James Irwin told his mother he was gonna be the first man on the moon when he was 12 years old, he ended up being the 8th.
GAkZN TIL: Until 2005, In-N-Out accommodated burger orders of any size by adding patties and slices of cheese at an additional cost. The limit was later disallowed to anything larger than 4x4 (four patties, 4 slices of cheese) after a famous incident involving a 100x100.
E1NBW TIL between 1990 and 1997 the Hubble Space Telescope assigned several hours per year to projects proposed by amateur astronomers, some of which led to publishable discoveries, but these policy was discontinued due to budget reductions.
6EVGw TIL Anthony Daniels, who endured years of discomfort in the C-3PO costume, was so annoyed by Alan Tudyk (Rogue One) playing K-2SO in the comfort of a motion-capture suit that he cursed at Tudyk. Tudyk later joked that a "fuck you" from Daniels was among the highest compliments he had ever received.