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TIL that some bacteria can move twice as fast as a cheetah in terms of body length per second and have biological motors that can rotate up to 17000 RPM.

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5YNdR TIL of the GitHub Archive Program in which the GitHub team had a full archive of all current public repositories buried in a decommissioned coal mine in the Norwegian town of Longyearbyen
VMjmp TIL that raising the drinking age to 21 significantly reduced the number of alcohol related traffic fatalities for people aged 16-20 in the U.S. by 64 percent, according to the NIH.
J1glk TIL Alvin and the Chipmunks, were created by novelty singer Ross Bagdasarian, performing as Dave Seville. Asked to create another novelty song, he invented the Chipmunks, naming them after record company executives. All three were voiced by Bagdasarian, later his son, and have won 5 Grammys.
8aJGV TIL that North Korean reporters and photographers, were required to photograph Kim Il-Sung while standing slightly to his left to hide a large tumor on his neck
d5A7 TIL that if bill gates spent all of his net worth on antimatter, he’d have enough to buy 0.069 of a gram