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A number so epic it will collapse your brain into a black hole! Yet Tony Padilla and Matt Parker take the risk of discussing its magnitude.

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epKJ4 TIL The F150 is the ninth most popular vehicle in the world, despite having virtually no sales outside the US. The only other American cars in the top ten are Teslas, which sell world-wide.
GYW6Q TIL At no point in recorded history was there a discrepancy on whether the earth was flat or round. People accepted the earth as round as science evolved.
8eg0b TIL that in Japan, condoms were originally made from tortoise shells or animal horns and only covered the head of the penis. Dutch traders later introduced Japan to ones made out of “fine leather.”
v1GgB TIL Typhoid Mary is the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever. She was presumed to have infected 51 people, three of whom died, over the course of her career as a cook.
R5ad7 TIL of Leônidas da Silva, one of several possible football (soccer) players credited for inventing the "Bicycle kick". The first time he used it, the referee was so shocked by the volley that he was unsure whether it was within the rules or not.