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

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O7R7 TIL Researchers at MIT have created a camera with a resolution of one frame per trillionth of a second, allowing them to film light as it travels.
GAkpQ TIL in the 1800’s bananas were seen as “immoral fruit” because of their shape. Fruit companies began issuing postcards of women eating bananas to advertise the fruit wasn’t taboo.
Or0a TIL When faced with a terminal illness, medical professionals, who know the limits of modern medicine, often opt out of life-prolonging treatment
WpvB TIL that as of 2005, Minsk, the capital of Belarus, does not have a single school with education carried out in the Belarusian language.
8DnV TIL the Energizer bunny was intended to be a parody of Duracell, which advertised using a pink bunny mascot as early as the 70s (15 years before Energizer). However, Energizer got the trademark first, and last year sued Duracell for selling their original pink bunny packaging in some US stores.