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TIL that all the Rugrats were voiced by women!

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wLjAo TIL that people who look young for their age have a higher life expectancy than those who don't.
aw5Bb TIL about Femtoengineering, which is technology 6 orders of magnitude smaller than nanotech. At this scale, engineering utilises quarks & strings to manipulate atoms. If achieved, could lead towards macro-scale teleportation, as well as breakthroughs in force field generation and antigravity tech.
Bwad TIL many plants that we consider to be weeds are edible natives to North America, and among them is cattail (Typha) which one can eat the roots and stock of raw or cooked while the newly developing flower-head can be eaten like corn-on-the-cob and has a corn-like taste.
JYkJv TIL after a successful fan fundraiser in 2019 the British town of Newhaven unveiled a memorial bench honoring rapper Eazy-E. When faced with criticism, the idea's proponent said that "It’s better than nothing, which is pretty much all Newhaven has."
4kajR TIL: In 1994, the DEA seized a supercomputer from a drug cartel. The cartel acquired an IBM AS/400 and used it to record bribes, vehicle and telephone data of enemies, and the entire Colombian DMV record. The cartel had computer analysts using it to locate individuals to wiretap. The DEA was stunned