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TIL one nanosecond is to one second as one second is to 31.7 years

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69Nym TIL Funeral homes put spiked contact lenses in to keep your eyes closed after death.
O1jL TIL that Olympus Mons on Mars, the tallest known mountain in the solar system, is so large at its base that an observer on its peak wouldn’t know he was standing on a mountain because its slope would be obscured by the curvature of the planet itself.
aom9 TIL that the Nobel Prize in physics wasn’t awarded 6 different times, because the committee deemed that no work had been done that was sufficient quality
PKbJ TIL during the voice recording for 1986’s “Transformers: The Movie” Orson Welles complained to his biographer that he had spent the day “playing a toy in a movie about toys who do horrible things to each other.”
Y70Zd TIL that the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador is almost as big as California, slightly bigger than Japan, and nearly two times the size of the United Kingdom.