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TIL Ben & Jerry’s creators, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield first met because they were the slowest kids in their gym class.

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NEME TIL U.S. President Andrew Jackson once held an open house party at the White House at which he served a 1,400-pound (640 kg) block of cheddar cheese.
N01M TIL an Institute in Colorado created a clock so accurate it won’t lose/gain a second in 20 million years. This is the clock used for internet time!
PYl0n TIL of the concept of Yūgen (幽玄) an important concept in traditional Japanese aesthetics that doesn't have an English equivalent. It is said to mean "a profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe ... and the sad beauty of human suffering".
GAZpN TIL of Direct collapse black holes, where black holes in the early universe could form directly via the collapse of dense gas, rather than requiring stars to form first and then collapse into a black hole.
neaQ7 TIL of the Haber–Bosch process developed in the 20th century - the process produces 450 million tonnes of nitrogen fertilizer per year now & has allowed to global population to grow from 1.6 billion in 1900 to 7 billion today