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Every citrus fruit you eat is the product of a long line of human experimentation and cross-breeding. They share th… https://t.co/ewJwH51Ddc

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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Betelgeuse is 642 light years away and we can easily see it with our naked eye. Which means it’s at the center of a… https://t.co/vY4ilTotrN

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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Space is big https://t.co/E9MbTIPbkO

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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Space is big https://t.co/E9MbTIPbkO

Posted Dec. 27, 2022 Just a Typo

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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Creatures captured by photographer David Liittschwager in a small scoop of seawater. Something I’ll be thinking abo… https://t.co/XDdHaVzjc6

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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In 2009, the Institute for Highway Safety staged a head on crash between a 2009 Chevy Malibu and a 1959 Bel Air. Th… https://t.co/U0AAVuT6Sn

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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It’s funny that after the Big Bang, there were all these hydrogen atoms everywhere and 13.8 billion years later som… https://t.co/iMkyoX8uzV

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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In a Pythagorean tree, every color is equally represented, because a² + b² = c² https://t.co/NimaAa1rKF

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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Five cities, then and now. Somewhere today there's a quiet fishing village that will be a 2100 megalopolis. Hong K… https://t.co/r2hflo5byU

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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In case we're ever in a bind, I figured it out and all humans can fit snugly inside New York City, all standing on… https://t.co/FX633Dagdk

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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The size of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Kind of unimpressed with the dinosaurs. https://t.co/LX9vWZVmS2

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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Hidreley Diao uses AI to capture what historical figures would look like if they were modern people. George Washi… https://t.co/9WKrZtDqVX

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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It would be weird if I could flip through a phone and watch videos of my parents at any given month of their lives.… https://t.co/T8XmQ6IE0h

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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The Cosmic Cliffs are unfathomably huge. The tallest peaks in this image are 7 light years high - the height of 5 b… https://t.co/1yAPe3WGfe

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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Whales evolved from a bizarre, vaguely whale-looking land animal called the Pakicetus that lived in Pakistan 50 mil… https://t.co/qBG4b8DvvF

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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Population density thread because you and I both know you have nothing better to do. Let's start with this cool wa… https://t.co/C3WYEtcQ5m

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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Imagine dropping a single microbe onto a lifeless alien planet, then coming back a few billion years later and seei… https://t.co/NSbXI9A4fX

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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The lifespans of some of the most well-known people of the past 600 years https://t.co/ZFvChmHLKE

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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You’d have to compress Earth to this size (9 mm) to form a black hole. You’d have to compress the sun to 3 km and t… https://t.co/AWOk4ALVQ7

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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A 5 megabyte hard drive in 1956 vs. 1 terabyte today. A terabyte hard drive in 1956 would be the size of a 40-story… https://t.co/xliW4ww58G

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

22 tweets from 2022 that might blow your mind: Let's start with what a water droplet looks like at 6,000fps. [nac Image Technology] https://t.co/XrZ9vPXaId — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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In a Pythagorean tree, every color is equally represented, because a² + b² = c² https://t.co/NimaAa1rKF

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

https://t.co/hdD9MiCaPQ — PolitiTweet.org

Five cities, then and now. Somewhere today there's a quiet fishing village that will be a 2100 megalopolis. Hong K… https://t.co/r2hflo5byU

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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In case we're ever in a bind, I figured it out and all humans can fit snugly inside New York City, all standing on… https://t.co/FX633Dagdk

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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Betelgeuse is 642 light years away and we can easily see it with our naked eye. Which means it’s at the center of a… https://t.co/vY4ilTotrN

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

https://t.co/M05BgT9vBJ — PolitiTweet.org

The size of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Kind of unimpressed with the dinosaurs. https://t.co/LX9vWZVmS2

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

https://t.co/d1pjjNwqy1 — PolitiTweet.org

It would be weird if I could flip through a phone and watch videos of my parents at any given month of their lives.… https://t.co/T8XmQ6IE0h

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

https://t.co/NZ4cJzekAJ — PolitiTweet.org

The Cosmic Cliffs are unfathomably huge. The tallest peaks in this image are 7 light years high - the height of 5 b… https://t.co/1yAPe3WGfe

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

https://t.co/3HkbiTL4Gd — PolitiTweet.org

Whales evolved from a bizarre, vaguely whale-looking land animal called the Pakicetus that lived in Pakistan 50 mil… https://t.co/qBG4b8DvvF

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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Population density thread because you and I both know you have nothing better to do. Let's start with this cool wa… https://t.co/C3WYEtcQ5m

Posted Dec. 27, 2022