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TIL A decibel is one tenth of a bel, a seldom-used unit named in honor of Alexander Graham Bell.

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Y7K1r TIL of PP-VJX, aka "the Cuban Express" — the Boeing 707 hijacked three times in four months; in all of them it was diverted to Cuba
OoJX4 TIL Matt Groening is an acquaintance of a senior researcher in NASA's Micro-11 experiment, and designed a commemorative patch for the mission. It features Homer, riding an angry bull sperm through space.
GJBE TIL there are a type of mites, called Adactylidium, that are impregnated while still inside their mother’s body. The mites then devour their mother from the inside out to go on and repeat the cycle.
vkrx TIL Texas now has higher rate of earthquakes than California for about last 3 years
OpXR TIL: When Carthaginian explorer Hanno reached the Ivory Coast ~600-500 bc, he thought Gorillas were a race of humans and tried to capture some. He ended up killing them for being too violent and took their skins back to Carthage to put on display.