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TIL of the Lizardman Constant, which basically says that 4% of polling data is worthless due to people either being insane or deliberately corrupting your data

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OvV7 TIL that in July 1945, Kodak accidentally discovered the U.S. was testing atomic bombs after customers complained of “foggy” film.
l7MV5 TIL that Archimedes of the 3rd century BC calculated the universe’s diameter to be what is now 2-light years in astronomy and discovered the law of exponent while trying to name numbers that are significantly higher than 10,000^2 (myriad myriads)
R5NMw TIL Woodpeckers ram their bills at 25 times per second with 1200g’s acceleration.This research refutes the theory that their skulls act like helmets, absorbing the shock of impact. Instead, they minimize it to strike harder
kJVl7 TIL skin cancer is 20 times more common in white people than black people
0pN1 TIL that Jonathan Hyde, famous for playing British roles in Jumanji, Titanic, The Mummy, and Richie Rich, is actually Australian.