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TIL that the Hubble Space Telescope consumes less power than a kitchen kettle.

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kO9Dg TIL that snails can be dextral (clockwise-coiled) and sinistral (counterclockwise-coiled).
b9lJN TIL Rio’s $12 billion 2016 olympic park is mostly abandoned and off limits to tourism.
OoYM6 TIL that using sign language, a caretaker communicated female chimp that her own baby died, to which the female chimp signed back "CRY" "touching her cheek and drawing her finger down the path a tear would make on a human" (chimps can't shed tears)
GYee7 TIL Only 220,000 Paraguayans survived the 1870 Paraguayan War, of which 28,000 were male. In other words, the male population of Paraguay post-war was only 13%.
4Xwjg TIL a science kit called Atomic Energy Lab which included samples of radioactive elements was sold as a kids toy in 1950