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TIL about Team 0%, “a group dedicated to making sure that every single level in both Super Mario 1 & 2 have at least one clear on it.” As of right now they are 99.9% done with SM1, with only one more level to clear to “beat” the whole game
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TIL that Pluto Time is the time of day when the light on Earth is comparable to how bright it gets on Pluto.
M7orV
TIL Actor Gerard Butler paid for bee venom injections twice and ended up in hospital both times.
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TIL, that a 1-second-long, 1-watt sound wave in water, weighs about 0.1 milligrams. The weight of sound waves is created by it's interactions with gravity.
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TIL about the loneliest whale in the world. Dubbed "The 52-hertz whale", it appears to be the only individual emitting a whale call at this frequency in the whole world. The whale itself has never been sighted.
4keAN
TIL Magpul®, the firearms and firearms accessories manufacturer, is named "Magpul" because they began with creating a tool that helps to more easily pull a magazine from a pouch.
nWknr
TIL left-handed men are more likely to be homosexual than their right-handed counterparts
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TIL that, during production of Thor: The Dark World, Marvel decided that the Aether and previous MacGuffins would be used as Infinity Stones. In order to give each stone its own color, the red Orb in Guardians of the Galaxy was changed to purple in post-production.
W7g99
TIL: The Pinky Swear or the Pinky Promise has origins in Japan from 1600 where it is called yubikiri "finger cut-off" and often additionally confirmed with the vow "Pinky swear, whoever lies will be made to swallow a thousand needles"
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TIL there were Greek Buddhist monks long before there were Thai, Tibetan, Chinese or Japanese Buddhist monks.
woneE
TIL There are no SI Units named after women
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TIL the notion that separate New York City borough accents exist is false. Linguists are in agreement that there is no empirical evidence of systematic differences in NYC English across NYC’s five boroughs. There is no purely geographical variation in speech patterns that occur within NYC.