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TIL CHEP started as an Australian Government initiative to reuse left over US Army pallets from WW2

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R5eo4 TIL inside a cell, molecules can move at speeds upward of hundreds of miles per hour. A typical enzyme can randomly collide with potential reactants up to 500,000 times per second just from moving so fast.
vkpK TIL that “Kevin” is seen in Germany as a low-class name. In a phenomenon known as “Kevinismus”, those with the name reportedly experience discrimination; a joke claims that “Only druggies and East Germans are named Kevin”.
5VvM8 TIL that the 2002 movie The Ring wasn't the first in the franchise. The 1998 Japanese film Ring (known as "Ringu" in the US) actually was the original.
P1EVG TIL about the "Seven Sutherland Sisters", a late 19th C. sideshow act who ended up making millions by using their famously long hair to market a line of quack medicine hair growth products.
jNY6E TIL We are milking the blue blood from the 450.000.000 year old Horseshoe Crab for medical use while they are in danger of going extinct.