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NXexe TIL of Roller Coasters You Could Drive Your Own Car On In The 1920s - The Autopian
XOO6 TIL Scientists are on the verge of being able to produce viable, living human organs via 3D bioprinters.
LwgP TIL that internet providers use megabits per second (Mbps) to measure download speed, which is 1/8th the size of a megabyte (MBps), despite files being measured in bytes
KOXkJ TIL that between 1998 and 2011, ‘Torn’ by Natalie Imbruglia was played well over 300,500 times on Australian radio, averaging out to around 75 plays per day.
grWnb TIL that in 1972, 80,000 Ugandan Asians were expelled from Uganda because they were 'better off than Ugandan Natives'