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TIL emergency oxygen masks on airplanes only last for ~10-14min.

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E1Qwx TIL on the same day Carol Greider was notified she had won the Nobel Prize of Medicine in 2009, funding for her grant proposal on the very subject she won the Prize for was rejected and deemed, in her words, "not worthy for discussion" less than 3 hours later.
9nRr TIL the 1964 Alaska Megathrust quake (magnitude 9.2) was so violent it drove land vertically upwards by 30 feet and liquified the soil, creating vast forests of dead trees still standing today.
vPlX4 TIL black day, contrast to Valentine’s Day and white day, is a day for single or people who has not got a gift on either days
QNNb9 TIL the movie ‘My Neighbor Totoro’, which released in 1988, only had eight animators working on it for eight months.
wLDxY TIL Margot Robbie worked at Subway before she was famous