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TIL That Britney Spears’ debut single “…Baby One More Time” peaked at No.1 in every country it charted in

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JXmk TIL The word “retarded” came into popular use during the 1960’s because it was considered far less offensive and more politically correct than labeling someone a moron, idiot or imbecile.
m1aEv TIL frogs can see individual photons, the smallest possible particles of light. Even the faintest sources like distant stars appear as individual points of light not as a continuous stream but as separate flashes. To test it single photons were fired at photoreceptor cells triggering a nerve impulse
Pl5n Til during the process of becoming a butterfly the entire caterpillar will break down into a liquid.
781rx TIL that the moon is rusting. Lunar hematite which is formed through oxidation of lunar surface iron by the oxygen from the Earth’s upper atmosphere that has been continuously blown to the lunar surface by solar wind when the Moon is in Earth’s magnetotail.
dDeD9 TIL that Bruce Lee's daughter Shannon Lee made a cameo appearance as a party singer performing "California Dreamin'", in her father's biopic Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story.