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TIL That riveted ships and boilers were made to be water-tight by caulking which, in this case, refers to the process of hammering the face of one steel plate so the deformation will fill the gaps, resulting in a tight seal.

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5YrMQ TIL the dartboard layout was designed by Brian Gamlin in 1896 and is organized to encourage accuracy, and is mathematically considered nearly perfect. Also Gamlin died at age 44, with no actual record of his death.
pYm58 TIL Partially because of the generation that grew up on Jurassic Park becoming Paleontologists in large numbers about one new species of dinosaur is discovered every week
OkK7 TIL soldiers in WWII made simple radios using a razorblade and pencil as the diode, dubbing them Foxhole Radios.
6EpLZ TIL that the 10 most obese countries in the world are all located in Oceania according to data collected during a World Health Organisation study in 2016 about the prevalence of obesity among adults. Nauru is the most obese.
Q4pE Til that $2.5 billion company called Niggaz was created by the Nigerian Patroleum Company and Russia’s Gazprom