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TIL Gabe Newell owns marine research organization Inkfish, which operates "Limiting Factor" - a submersible which had previously reached Challenger Deep on multiple occasions and traveled to the deepest points of all five oceans.

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7r8gp Yes, but not at all precisely. In 1881, the British economist Francis Edgeworth envisioned a “hedonimeter” that would measure economic utility by “continually registering the height of pleasure experienced by an individual.”
VeXB TIL Blazing Saddles marks the first time a fart recording had been used in cinema
7rplM TIL: The Queen owns all the sturgeons, whales and dolphins in the waters within 3 miles from the UK
7GZx TIL the brain registers the anticipation of math—but crucially, not math itself as physical pain.
QN4Gd TIL that conjoined twins have been documented for thousands of years, and that there are 5 common types of conjoined twins and 11 rarer types.