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Interesting Facts for Today:

An 1854 cholera outbreak in London killed more than 500 people in 10 days.The Broad street water pump was the culprit, and the vast majority of cholera deaths were in the buildings immediately surrounding it.

The sands of Titan(Saturn’s moon) are electrically charged.It is also home to a volcano that erupts ice and snow.

Studies show it only takes 23 minutes of grocery shopping for the brain to stop making rational decisions.

There’s still no manmade material as strong and flexible as spider silk. (Go spiders)!

In most number groups, 1 appears as the first digit 30% of the time. This is known as Benford’s law and it’s used to detect fraudulent data.

 

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Spider silk                                                           Saturn’s moon(Titan)                                           Benford’s Law