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TIL Horses can't vomit.
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TIL that Stardew Valley was created by Eric Barone who was the sole developer on the game. He did all of the programming, designed all of pixel art and produced all of the music. He graduated with a computer science degree in 2011 but couldn't find a job in the industry and made the game. Inspiring.
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TIL a nurse wanted to know if her farts were contaminating equipment in the lab. The doctor and a microbiologist tested the hypothesis by having a colleague fart clothed then naked onto two Petri dishes. The conclusion was that clothing acts as a filter, but naked farts can cause contamination.
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TIL of the Romansch language. Spoken only in a small part of the Swiss Alps, it is a direct descendant of the Vulgar Latin used by the Roman Imperial troops garrisoned there.
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TIL that the SR71 Blackbird (fastest plane ever) used to covertly spy on the Soviet Union during the cold war, was built from Titanium that the US anonymously bought from Russia.
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TIL San Francisco International Airport is essentially built on top of 267 ball bearings whose support columns are capable of moving 20in any direction during an earthquake