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TIL that Danionella cerebrum, a species of fish no larger than 13.5 mm and with the smallest adult volume brain of any vertebrate, is capable of producing a sound of over 140 decibels.

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N7d6P TIL Bill Nye got his name after appearing on a show and hearing host saying “jiggawatt”. He corrected Keister on his pronunciation of the word “gigawatt”, and the nickname was born when Keister responded, “Who do you think you are—Bill Nye the Science Guy?”
m4go TIL King Charles VI of France really believed he was made out of glass.
loynK TIL that in the first Terminator movie, they had such a small budget that they performed scenes without permits. So much so, that one scene required Arnold to punch a car even though they didn't own it.
QNxyd TIL when he was an Illinois state legislator, Abraham Lincoln was challenged to a duel by state auditor James Shields. Lincoln insisted on broadswords as the weapon rather than pistols prompting Shields to back out and call for a truce.
9YlXX TIL of a 240 year old robot boy called "The Writer" - ancestor to the computer and can be "programmed" to write 40 character sentences