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TIL the NASA Voyager probes that are currently exploring interstellar space have the computing power of a standard key fob. Science is amazing.

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jNwMv TIL About Blue Lake Rhino Cave in Washington State that is the 14.5 million year old cast of an early Rhino ancestor created when basalt lava slowly covered the corpse floating upside down in an ancient lake found 300 feet up the side of a cliff.
JYbQj TIL about a bill called the "Workforce Mobility Act of 2019" that works to prohibit certain noncompete agreements.
oBebL TIL Paul McCartney wrote Paperback Writer when one of his aunts asked him to write "a single that wasn't about love". When he saw Ringo Starr reading a book, he decided that the single would be about a book.
VAQ0 TIL that an Ethiopian girl was kidnapped and attacked until a pride of lions chased her attackers off and stayed to defend her until help arrived!
KORB6 TIL pineapples are actually in a proto-carnivorous plant family called bromeliads. Water trapped in their crowns supports thriving mini-ecosystems, whose residents and their droppings are absorbed for nutrients (not energy) through their leaves, as most plants can actually do.