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TIL that in fact you can film the speed of light!

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MeYlA TIL that Yanjaa Wintersoul, a26 year old polyglot, memorised the entire 2018 IKEA catalogue in a week. She stumbled across memorization techniques when trying to graduate her Bachelors degree program half the time and almost couldn't graduate high school as she had trouble memorising her Sciences.
JYvyB TIL that chlamidial cells are strange organisms closely related to blue-green algae that have DNA like bacteria but can only reproduce parasitically in foreign cells like a virus.
woxLJ TIL that penis enlargement methods go back thousands of years. Ancient Greeks and Indians wrote about various dubious methods. The Topinamá tribe in Brazil in the 1500s let poisonous snakes bite their penises. Penis pumps are not a modern invention, either.
N757M TIL an MIT study found that tin-foil hats amplified "radio bands reserved for government use" rather than blocking signals.