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TIL the International Space Station has gravity and everything is weightless only because they are in a constant free-fall around Earth

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4rxJ TIL There is an esoteric programming language called LOLCODE, in which code is expressed in the style of lolcat speech, implementing lines of code like “HAI,” “CAN HAS [LIBRARY]?” and “KTHXBAI.”
JYgv4 TIL Australian physician Barry Marshall was awarded a Nobel prize for infecting himself with bacterium Helicobacter pylori to show that it caused stomach ulcers, after he was ridiculed and declined funding for his hypothesis that bacteria could survive in acidic conditions
oBlbA TIL the 1954 novel "Lord Of The Flies" by William Golding is Stephen King's favorite book
N7EoQ TIL Quebec's provincial government intentionally misclassified 20,000 children as mentally ill and confined them to psychiatric institutions in order to misappropriate federal subsidies for the benefit of the Catholic Church
7r16M TIL that the Australian island state of Tasmania has an 85-metre land border with Victoria due to a surveying error