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TIL that the tendency for small wettable floating objects to attract one another is called the “Cheerios Effect”

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VML9Q TIL Dennis Richie, who along with Ken Thompson, created the C programming language in the 60s, the most influential language in history, as well as Unix (THE operating system behind MacOS and Linux), died a week after Steve Jobs in 2011. His death was ignored due to media coverage of Jobs' death.
Gmkj TIL Alaska has a rainforest, and its the largest one in the United States.
X0DLX TIL while the U.S. and France had similar per capita fatality rates in the 1990s, Americans today are three times as likely to die in a traffic crash
wpm7 TIL that it takes as low as 3 months to educate a Police Officer in the U.S., compared to 3 years in Norway and Finland
vPBBK TIL that trench rats was such a nuisance during WW1 that they are considered one of the worst parts of living in the trenches as only high-ranking people are given anti-rat beds and there are even reports of rats injuring foreheads that led to visits to the infirmary.