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TIL Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a Calorie

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7r5JZ TIL Teddy Roosevelt is the only president that had a tattoo
x6715 TIL Phobos, one of Mars's moons, orbits a mere several thousand kilometers away from Mars's surface. That's so close, you couldn't fit Earth in between Mars and Phobos!
nWDdb TIL that graphene is more conductive than copper and stronger than steel!
wLlL1 TIL a fleet of Italian-built C-27A cargo planes were purchased for the Afghan Air Force in 2012. Including maintenance costs, the total tab was $596 million. In 2012 they sold them for scrap metal for $32,000 US dollars (six cents a pound.)
PYPeE TIL that beer mugs are not called "steins" in Germany. "Stein" is the German word for "stone." The English word "stein" probably comes from the German word "Steinzeug" which means "stoneware"—the type of pottery that cheap beer mugs are often made of.