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TIL that we can never travel at the speed of light according to our current understanding of the physics of the universe because to travel at speed of light, we would need infinite amount of energy which is not possible. Quite a revelation after watching 100s of sci-fi movies.

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R5VKj TIL last year for the first time, the average american ate 100 lbs of chicken
epnQg TIL, in 19 seasons in the NBA, Shaq made one 3 pointer.
Y77Jx TIL Mercedes-Benz's three-pointed star started out as a symbol that Gottlieb Daimler, the founder of Mercedes' parent company Daimler, marked his house with on a postcard.
rR8M TIL that luminaries including Noah Webster, Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Carnegie, and Theodore Roosevelt advocated for simplified spelling, and many of them also supported simplified spellings of words such as though (tho), through (thru), and night (nite).
Ojg1 TIL: There is a “Buy Nothing Day” (BND), an international day of protest against consumerism. The first BND was organized in Canada in 1992 “as a day for society to examine the issue of over-consumption.”