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TIL that the same person (Alan Adler) invented both the Aerobie flying disc and the AeroPress coffeemaker

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4krk6 [TIL] If you stretched an ATOM to the size of a football field, the NUCLEUS would be the size of a pea. The nucleus is extremely tiny yet very dense. It accounts for less than one ten-trillionth of the volume of an atom but about 99.9994% of an atom’s mass.
epOAE TIL Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, was also worshipped in some places as a goddess of war through her form called 'Aphrodite Areia'
XLaX TIL that an asthmatic boy died in a severe asthma attack because the school forbid asthma inhalers; while the boy was dying, the inhalers sat in a safe at the principal’s office.
wLQJJ TIL: There is a thing as "smoking jacket" which is worn to prevent the tobacco smell from sticking on your clothes.
JYvDk TIL - More Facebook usage decreases Self-Esteem by r = -.20 which is a high correlation