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XEmZE TIL it took the Mythbusters team two years to find a company that would make lead foil thin enough for a lead balloon.
PYbKJ Today I learned that Monarch butterfly caterpillars live off of Milkweed, which is toxic and should kill them. They store it in their bodies and while becoming a butterfly the toxic is transferred to their wings as a defense mechanism
OGZX7 TIL that in 1995 Kermit the Frog launched an eau de toilette called Amphibia. It's slogan was: “Pour homme, femme, et frog.”
R7n68 TIL of the Vela Incident, A nuclear explosion in the Indian ocean of unknown origin. The most widespread theory is that it was a joint Apartheid South African-Israeli nuclear test.
69GN8 TIL the only Olympic Medalist to become disabled and then win a Paralympic Medal is Hungarian fencer Pál Szekeres. After winning a bronze in 1988, he lost the use of his legs in a traffic accident and won gold in wheelchair fencing in 1992.