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TIL that methamphetamine improves snails’ long-term memories and also prevents them from forgetting already learned ones.

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x6Jag TIL that Voyager 1 is so far from us that the light distance between us is ≈22 hours. That means that Voyager see 22h in the past if it could look at Earth.
yMjv TIL: The United States had plans to store all of their nuclear waste inside Yucca Mountain, located in Nevada. The plan was shelved in 2011 and there is no current long term plan in place.
rZBe TIL Sewol Ferry started sinking in South Korea in 2014, the captain told the passengers, mostly secondary school students, to not move and just stay put. 304 passengers and crew members died in the disaster
pXXQ TIL in 1900 Isaac Cline violated weather service policy and unilaterally issued a hurricane warning to warn the citizens of Galveston, TX that a major storm was headed their way.
8aPxa TIL of Andre Geim, the only person to win both a Nobel Prize for graphene, and an Ig Nobel Prize for levitating a frog.