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TIL that escape velocity of Deimos, one of Mars’s moons, is 20km/h - meaning you could easily throw something, or even ride a bike off a ramp, out of its gravity

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jNrnX TIL that the Collyer brothers, Homer and Langley, filled their house with over 100 tons of random objects. Langley constructed a maze of tunnels, complete with deadly booby traps, to protect his brother, who never left his room. Langley was killed by his own traps, and Homer starved to death.
kJ8p1 TIL Gorillaz famous "Clint Eastwood" riff is just a preset in Damon Albarn's omnichord
NvXJ TIL that humans can live unprotected in space for about 30 seconds if they don’t hold their breath.
bOwp TIL it’s Maryland’s 225th birthday. Happy Birthday Maryland!
gMePD TIL saving data to an SSD, RAM, flash memory, etc. increases its weight by an extremely small amount. One calculation states that 1GB of flash memory completely filled with 1s weighs something like 729 femtograms more than the same memory filled with zeros.