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TIL Doing a Google search uses the same amount of electricity as turning a 60W light bulb on for 17 seconds.

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8wBa TIL that there is a plan to send fertilized frozen embryos to habitable planets nearby. The newborns will be raised by robots who will build a civilization while the babies are growing.
oBma7 TIL President Ronald Reagan, during a soundcheck for his weekly radio address, made the following joke: "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
pNJp TIL a physics professor proved mathematically that vampires could not exist since if they fed once a month and each victim became a vampire, within two and a half years the entire population of the earth would be one.
OGQLY TIL, that the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, also known as the Avicii Arena, represents the Sun in the Sweden Solar System model, which spans across the country with scaled distances between celestial bodies.
gWg7 TIL there was a chimp named Congo who painted over 400 paintings. If zoologists tried to take away a painting before he considered it finished he would flip out, and if he considered a painting finished he couldn’t be made to continue it.