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TIL general anesthesia works in single celled microbes

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kOwj4 TIL before 2013, Pizza Hut was the largest consumer of kale; They only used it as a decoration for their salad bar.
8aKyZ TIL The moon is shaped like an egg: it only looks round because the big end points toward Earth
VB4g8 TIL Pacific Electric (PE) was America’s largest interurban electric railway system, blanketing the Los Angeles region with more than 1,000 miles of rail lines
loY47 TIL That photons do not experience time. They "hit" something the same instant they are created, regardless of how far they travel, from their own perspective.
w9P1 TIL Benjamin Franklin was an advocate of “air baths”, during which he would spend up to an hour reading or writing in his house completely nude.