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TIL that at our fastest, we are traveling 2.7 million MPH through space.

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Lkgpp TIL Japanese train drivers and conductors purposely point at all the signs they pass as a way to keep focus and prevent accidents. The technique is called shisa kanko and has been in use for more than 100 years.
JY4dB TIL humans have stripes on our bodies which are invisible to the naked eye, called Blaschko’s Lines
Oowlg TIL Aztec Emperor Montezuma realised his own seers were all charlatans because they’d failed to see that the Spanish were coming.
l7X6a TIL that plastic waste has now formed new types of rocks (plastiglomerates, pyroplastics, and plastistones) in the most remote parts of the planet that will be part of the Anthropocene fossil record as evidence of the influence of humans
NXPQb TIL that Charles III is the largest landowner in the world, as the British crown technically owns 90% of the land in Canada. The second-largest landowner is the Roman Catholic Church.