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TIL that for every dollar spent on NASA, the economy receives approximately seven dollars back in payoff

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XEvm6 TIL lawns take up a roughly equally sized area of the US as Texas does
rRQQo TIL when Mayhem's lead singer Dead committed suicide, the group's guitarist Euronymous made necklaces of his skull and gave them to members of the black metal community. This act made bassist Necrobutcher quit; his replacement, Varg Vikernes, murdered Euronymous 2 years later.
BgZLe TIL: There was another species of human recently found.
OoNVL TIL that William Blake's poem "Jerusalem", considered the unofficial anthem of England and used in numerous English and British events, is inspired by the apocryphal story that a young Jesus travelled to what is now England and visited Glastonbury
DQNDe TIL smell is the only sense that isn’t processed by the thalamus (sensory integration center of the brain); instead, smell is directly processed in the primary olfactory cortex without us consciously registering them, which is why odors can bring back memories without us understanding why.