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TIL that Grant Imahara from the Mythbusters is one of the few people in the world to operate R2D2

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l7KGA TIL that scallops have up to 200 eyes and see at quite high resolution.
n1Vr TIL that comparatively little is known about Bełżec, a Nazi extermination camp at which ~0.5 million people died, because evidence of the camp’s existence was almost entirely erased before the war’s end and only 2 survivors were able to give testimony.
yVPo8 TIL about "Rose's Law", which is the "Moore's Law of Moore's Law" for quantum computation. It states that the quantity of qubits in a quantum computer doubles every 1.5-2 years. However, this results in exponential exponential growth of computing power.
xMog TIL that there are species of fish which have symbiotic relationships with certain types of shrimp where the shrimp provides shelter and the goby provides security alerts to help them avoid predators.
GAGLj TIL the most common misconception about Yellowstone is that it’s overdue for an eruption, as stated by Michael Poland, the current scientist-in-charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO), the research consortium that monitors the volcano.