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TIL that if you click “I’m Feeling Lucky” in Google, with no text on the search bar, you can see every single variation of the Google logo through the years.

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R5V08 TIL GPS satellites go so fast, that they need to adjust their location calculations to account for Relativity
PY6NZ TIL Artificial Banana Flavored Food tastes more like what bananas used to taste like and bananas today don't taste as they should
Eg8ZX TIL the "OMG" cosmic ray was (probably) a proton travelling at 99.99999999999999999999951% of the speed of light. It would take 215,000 years for a photon to gain a 1 centimeter lead on this proton.
YW17 TIL that Jodie Foster was so fluent in French that she dubbed her own movies
6lRY TIL that physicist Arthur Eddington was told, “Professor Eddington, you are one of three people in the world who understand relativity.” Eddington remained silent. The reporter continued, “Don’t be modest, Eddington!” Eddington replied, “Actually, I’m trying to think who the third person is.”