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DQDvv TIL about the Graham's number. It is so large that the observable universe is far too small to contain an ordinary digital representation of Graham's number, assuming that each digit occupies one Planck volume, the smallest measurable space. The last 13 digits are ...7262464195387
E1pL0 TIL: More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another's scientist's experiments
78MXZ TIL in 2007, a woman successfully appealed her case after being sentenced for breastfeeding her infant while driving on the Ohio Turnpike because her car was registered in Michigan and the judge ruled that the state law forbidding breastfeeding while driving only applied to cars registered in Ohio.
69vrZ TIL the patrol boats used by the United States Navy during the Vietnam War were powered by jets manufactured by Jacuzzi
An0d TIL Tony Wild, the man who introduced Kopi Lewak (coffee found in the feaces of a species of south asian cat) to the west, launched a campaign to ban the product due to the massive cruelty in producing the coffee.