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TIL "Helicobacter pylori" is responsible for stomach cancer

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97d7 TIL The gym on the top floor of the US Supreme Court Building has a basketball court jokingly referred to as “the highest court in the land.”
16G1W TIL The LSST Camera has a (3,200 megapixel/3.2 gigapixel) sensor that can take images with high enough resolution to see a golf ball from (24 kilometers/15 miles) away; the images are so large that it would take 378 4K ultra-high-definition TV screens to display one of them in full size.
rNAaw TIL the state of Texas keeps a database of over 500 executed inmate's last words going back to the 1980's
ZpmDQ TIL that in 2019, Sonos used to have a "recycle mode" that intentionally bricked speakers so they could not be reused - it made it impossible for recycling firms to resell it or do anything else but strip it for parts.
ob7Y TIL if an octopus gets stressed out, it might self-cannibalize and eat it’s own limbs.