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TIL, 146 cryogenically frozen people are buried in the desert waiting for science to resurrect them

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RL98 TIL the blobfish – a fish repeatedly described as the world’s ugliest animal – actually becomes a pretty good-looking fish when submerged to 4,000 feet.
neoad TIL bicycle stability is actually a quite difficult mathematical problem and was fully explained no sooner than 2007
Zp0oo TIL Winnipeg's 11 storey Union Bank Building became Canada's tallest building and second-tallest in the British Empire upon completion in 1904. By the mid-1990s, it was completely empty and sat vacant for 18 years
a8VGN TIL that Mattiedna Johnson, born to Mississippi sharecroppers in 1918, used techniques she’d used to make things like butter, jam and soap on her childhood farm to develop techniques to capture and preserve molds for research that eventually helped in the development of drugs to fight scarlet fever.
GNW4 TIL Dennis Rader, the “BTK” killer, contacted police and asked “Can I communicate with Floppy and not be traced to computer? Be honest.” Police told him he could, and Rader sent them a disk. Forensic analysts then identified him through metadata from a deleted MS Word file the disk contained.