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TIL it takes 45 minutes to take a shit in zero gravity.

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GY5gg TIL Despite being only 13 percent of the population, African Americans make up nearly half (49 percent) of all wrongful convictions.
697PX TIL In 1838, the governor of Missouri issued Executive Order 44, which ordered “Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the state.” The order wasn’t rescinded until 1976.
ObZL TIL that according to the Inflation theory, our unobservable universe may be 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times larger than the already mind-bogglingly massive observable universe.
9lG6 TIL that a recently published study out of Spain found that THC seems to target and kill some forms of human brain cancer.
N7Goe TIL The 1971 Coca-Cola ad ‘I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)’ featured a group of young multicultural people lip-synching the song on a hill to represent global unity. The South African government requested a version of the ad but without the black actors. Coca Cola refused