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TIL that pill bugs AKA roly-polys are crustaceans, not insects.

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v1o1x TIL that there's an "Anti-Powerpoint Party" in Switzerland which seeks a referendum for prohibition of Powerpoint as well as of other presentation software because it "causes national economic damage" and "lowers the quality of presentation in 95% cases."
wD67 TIL Quinoa is so nutritionally dense and complete that it is being considered a possible crop in NASA’s Controlled Ecological Life Support System for long-duration manned space expeditions.
x6jk0 TIL In 1930, Bernard Lyot invented the coronagraph that allowed total solar eclipses to be recreated at will. It is essentially a telescope with a small disk in the focal plane to exactly cover the disk of the sun like the moon would
pv8e TIL the longest prison term ever sentenced was 2,200 years. He appealed, was re-convicted, re-sentenced, and given an additional 9,000 years.
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