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TIL NASA spending has a 14:1 return on investment to the economy

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QONp TIL Cunningham’s law states: “The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.”
E16d TIL The second largest shareholder in News Corp is a Saudi Oil Billionaire..
GY8dQ TIL- apples are not indigenous to North America, nor most of Europe. They originated in Kazakhstan, in central Asia east of the Caspian Sea. The capital of Kazakhstan, Alma Ata, means “full of apples.” By 1500 BC apple seeds had been carried throughout Europe
XAvQ TIL that mopeds and scooters emit 10-30 times the amount of hydrocarbons per km that cars do
W7EB9 TIL, the longest word in the world is 189,819 letters long and describes the protein called Titin.