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TIL Rectal temperature is a method coroners can use to determine time of death

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e0kVb TIL of Build the Enterprise, a plan to build a real-life functioning version of the USS Enterprise using today’s technology. It would get to the moon in 3 days or Mars in 3 months, be a kilometer long, fall somewhere between spaceship and space station, and cost $706 billion to build.
m11AM TIL that Bruce Springsteen has only had two #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100: Manfred Mann's Earth Band's 1977 cover of his song "Blinded By The Light" and 1985's "We Are The World," which he sang with a large ensemble of famous musicians. His song "Dancing in the Dark" only got to #2.
6Lom TIL of “Methuselah Trusts,” trust funds designed to accumulate massive wealth over hundreds of years through the power of compound interest. One such trust, set up for Hartwick College in 1936, was so massive, it was feared it “could ultimately shatter the nation’s financial structure.”
WNK9 [TIL] When under stress, E. coli bacteria switch to more error-prone DNA management in order to increase the chance of receiving a mutation adaptive to the stress
eK4g TIL the band ‘Blink 182’ was originally called 'Blink’, but upon hearing there was another band called 'Blink’, they renamed their band 'Blink 182’, after the number of times Al Pacino says “f*ck” in Scarface