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TIL that there are over 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe and that up until 1924, the common knowledge was that the milky way was itself the whole universe

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GADlE TIL if you fill your lungs with 100% oxygen you can safely go ~8 minutes without breathing
Qbyd TIL when contestants are kicked off of Gordan Ramsey’s show “Hell’s Kitchen”, they are giving psychological examinations. The show is so draining that the producers want to make sure the contestants won’t kill themselves or someone else.
M5wB TIL that in 2011 duckduckgo placed a giant billboard in google’s hometown that said: “google tracks you. We don’t.”
ANAZ4 TIL the word for father is "mama" in most of the western Australian Aboriginal languages. The word for mother is also "papa" in a subset of these languages.
e0K5L TIL that roundworms survived 30,000 years frozen in the Siberian permafrost. When thawed by scientists, they began moving and eating as usual.