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TIL that Mass is the only one of 7 fundamental measurments we still use a physical example of.

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yQMWa TIL that Antartica has a native insect species the Antarctic Midge, Belgica Antarctica. The species has been for around 30 million years and has adapted to surviving the cold, it is the technically the largest land animal on the contient and has the tiniest genome of any insect.
AM5x TIL in 2004 Bungie started a viral marketing campaign called I Love Bees which had participants from all over the world answering pay phones found by decoding GPS coordinates and times from the website. Hundreds participated, and not a single phone call was missed.
R7Yn1 TIL that there's an actual term for the act of using scientific sounding facts to trick people into a false conclusion or belief. It was dubbed "Zohnerism" after a student called Nathan Zohner tricked 86% of his school's 9th graders into wanting to ban "dihydrogen monoxide" (water)
6EG48 TIL After a stable boy misspelled the name of a thoroughbred Potatoes, the horse was named Potoooooooo, or Pot-8-Os. In 27 years Potoooooooo won 30 races and sired 5 winners.
gkk7 TIL museums have more than half a million Native American skeletons in their collections, even after returning 50,000 skeletons for burial