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TIL that the Richter Scale doesn’t stop at 10.0 and that asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was equivalent in energy release to a 13.0 earthquake

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8eL4V TIL The Andromeda galaxy is approaching us at 250,000 miles per hour ( 402,000 km/h).
lQN7 TIL An Australian scientist discovered that adding cigarette butts to brick clay halves the energy needed to make the brick.
K01J TIL since Hershey changed their formula to no longer include cocoa butter, they are legally prevented from labeling some of their candies as having “Milk Chocolate”, and must instead say they are “chocolate candy,” “made with chocolate” or “chocolatey.”
j671a Today I learned that Popeye’s famous spinach-fueled strength came from a chemist’s typo: - In 1870, German scientist Erich von Wolf accidentally wrote that spinach had 35mg of iron per 100g (instead of 3.5mg) due to a misplaced decimal point. - The error went uncorrected until 1937 (67 Years)
lKxG TIL there is a community that believes Eminem died in 2006-2007 and that his current manifestation is an imposter/doppelganger.