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TIL people use a banana for scale… when measuring radiation.

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kOEn7 There's an extremely rare metallic asteroid lurking between Mars and Jupiter, and it's worth more than the entire global economy. Now, the Hubble Space Telescope has given us a closer look at the object, which is worth an estimated $10,000 quadrillion. — that's a one followed by 19 zeroes.
x6lgg TIL that the US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia when communism fell was Shirley Temple.
OGx5g TIL 117 billion humans have ever been born. Those alive in 2022 represent 6.8% of the total number of people who have ever lived, up from a total world population of 5,000,000 ten thousand years ago
neBeG TIL that while the first state to pass a speed limit law happened in 1901 and limited the legal speed of motor vehicles to 12 mph in cities and 15 mph on country roads, the first motor vehicle to actually get a ticket was in a 2 mph zone.
9Yo8B TIL: Sandra Bullock, along with Halle Berry showed up in person to accept their RAZZIES Award.