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TIL graphene, an allotrope of carbon, is actually the toughest material ever tested. It was accidentally discovered by using scotch tape to pull single atom layers off a graphite block

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awdy0 TIL that the British Royal Veto still exists and is in use
X4d8 TIL you cannot get HIV from a mosquito or any other insect. Mosquitoes don’t inject the blood from their last meal when they bite. Also, they don’t hop from host to host. After a meal, they go rest and digest. And HIV is destroyed by the insect’s stomach.
AD7w4 TIL that only one girls’ name in America has never gone out of the top 100 most popular: Elizabeth. According to the SSA, the name ranked a high of #3 in 1887, a low of #26 in 1945, and was #13 in 2018.
LZwV TIL Hitler and Stalin had virtually no senses of humor, and only laughed at others’ expense. Abraham Lincoln, on the other hand, despite looking sombre in photographs, had a sunny personality and loved joking around and making fun of himself.
78AdL TIL in 2021, a man at a convenience store in Pennsylvania placed $2 on the counter for a Mountain Dew that was priced at 2 for $3, and walked out. The price for one Mountain Dew, however, was $2.29. The man was charged with a felony, sent to jail on a $50,000 bond, and faced up to 7 years in prison