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TIL Jellyfish are considered plankton because they cannot swim against the current

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XkoQ TIL that in Canada, mothers who kill their newborns almost never receive jail time, and the most they can receive is 5 years
OyA7 TIL: Alcohol is actually banned in professional shooting competition as it is actually considered a performance enhancing drug.
vReD TIL: There are 18.6 million empty homes in America, meaning you could give every person in Scotland around three houses in America, and every homeless American around six houses.
MekMB TIL the Summit Supercomputer Can Calculate in 1 Second What Would Take You 6 Billion Years or "If every person on Earth completed one calculation per second, it would take the world population 305 days to do what Summit can do in 1 second
nexOo TIL of Phineas Gage, a man who had a large metal rod go completely through his head and destroy his brain’s left frontal lobe. Miraculously he survived, and was able to recover his social skills over time although people noted changes to his personality, behavior, and memory.