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TIL that Novak Djokovic is the first man ever to complete the career “Big Titles sweep,” winning all four Slams, all nine ATP Masters 1000s, the year-end Finals and an Olympic gold medal

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0Ewj TIL the first solar cell developed had less than 1% conversion efficiency, and was denounced as a fraud by the USA for “generating power without consuming matter, violating the laws of physics.”
woZ01 TIL that Canada and the United States both used to use white lines to divide the two directions of traffic.
BrLXL TIL there is an all-female species of lizard, called the desert grassland whiptail lizard, which reproduces asexually.
loL51 TIL that a craft equipped with warp drive would move by distorting space.
6LPW TIL that due to naturally-occurring potassium isotopes in a banana, using it as a “banana-phone” delivers a higher, albeit tiny dose of ionizing (DNA-damaging) radiation into your head compared an actual cellphone, which only emits non-ionizing radiation.