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TIL that competitive full contact fighting in medieval suits of armor is a thing, and it is brutal.

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EgKDw TIL The actor who played Private Vasquez in Aliens (Jenette Goldstein) also played John Connor's foster mother Janelle in T2 Judgement Day
epQR4 TIL a 2008 study found that the quantity of bumper stickers on a car was a predictor of road rage. The more stickers, the more likely a driver is to exhibit it. The stickers are a good indicator of a driver's territorial disposition. The more territorial one is, the more violent one is prone to be.
Z8GaQ TIL that the beautiful symmetry of a total solar eclipse happens because —by pure chance— the sun is 400 times larger than the moon, but is also 400 times farther from Earth, making the two bodies appear the exact same size in the sky.
X06rE Today I learned that cigarettes and gasoline were used as forms of commodity money in Europe in the immediate aftermath of World War II.
R79Aj TIL Only three sciences get Nobel awards: chemistry, physics and physiology. Mathematics is ignored, as are computing, robotics and artificial intelligence as well as environmental sciences. Modern science is also a group affair, rather than the genius of a few scientists