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TIL that NASA’s internet speed is 91 Gigabits per second

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mxVVO TIL in 2007, "Big Bang Theory" set designers toured the apartments being used by current graduate students to see how young scientists really live. They did a faithful re-creation of the apartments, but after CBS tested the show, the sets were scrapped because they were too depressing.
AGEd TIL grasshoppers require 12 times less feed to produce a kilogram of edible mass than cattle. With global population growing, climate change etc, United Nations wants us to mass produce bugs for human consumption.
Egy9X TIL that adults have 206 bones, while babies start out with around 305. Bones fuse together as we grow, which is why we end up with fewer bones than we had at birth, with a quarter of our bones being in our feet.
A6Wl TIL the word “french” in french fries doesn’t need capitalized, since it means to slice food into thin strips
BWob TIL a woman named Michelle Thompson suffered from Permanent Sexual Arousal Syndrome (PSAS) and had more than 300 orgasms a day.