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TIL 1 gram of uranium 235 has 19,870,900,000 calories and would take over 50 million hours of cycling to burn off.

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1ePD TIL a french mathematician the day before his duel published all his work because he didnt think he would survive. The next day he died at age 20 from a bullet to his gut.
YGe7 TIL when Gangnam Style surpassed ~2.15 billion views on Youtube, the View Counter went negative, causing Youtube to release a statement saying “We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views), but that was before we met PSY.”
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