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TIL caffeine enhances physical performance, endurance, muscle strength and power

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awvkA TIL that a high school girl became the first person to fold a paper in half 12 times. She also derived the equation describing the limit of paper folding. No theoretical limit exists but the thickness of a paper folded 103 times in half would exceed the size of the known universe
w651 TIL Carl Sagan’s anatomically correct naked man and woman were censored on the Voyager spacecraft Golden Record because critics found the nudity offensive.
69Mv7 TIL: China doesn't know how to make a ballpoint pen.
M4k8 TIL Chuck Close is a painter who is suffering from prosopagnosia, which means he can’t recognize or remember faces, has used this disability to make large ultra realistic paintings of faces.
v1Kr8 TIL a tax auditor in Finland died at his desk in his office, and no one realized he was dead for 2 days.