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TIL: "Oreology" and Oreologist" are actual scientific terms. which studies the flows and fractures of Oreos and whether they can be evenly split in a way that the creme filling is equal. PhD candidates even invented an "Oreometer". The study led people to be familiar with rheology, the actual field.

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wL17o TIL Theoretical physicist Abraham (Avi) Loeb made the case that microbes could have been ejected into space from earth by asteroid impacts billions of years ago, in a reverse kind of panspermia, theoretically leading to life being spread across the solar system or further.
rN7y TIL your brain shuts down your vision when you turn your head quickly, to prevent motion blur. This is why films like “Cloverfield” make people feel sick.
1a71D TIL when you love getting attention and hate it at the same time is called Hedgehog's dilemma
groW7 TIL that canned tuna (and other fish) contains small doses of mercury (the poisonous metal found for example in old thermomethers)
W7Jyo TIL of the longest pro baseball game jn history between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox. It lasted 33 innings, with 8 hours and 25 minutes of play total.