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TIL carats are for gemstone weight, while karats are for precious metal purity

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GD6E TIL Jason David Frank (green power ranger) is actually a 7th degree black belt, a pro MMA fighter, developed his own style of karate, & held the world record for most pine boards broken in free fall.
R5w4w TIL that the first recorded person to fly was Yuan Huangtou, a Chinese former prince who was forced to participate in an experiment in 559 CE with other prisoners in which he was strapped to a kite and flown off a 33 meter tall tower. He was the only survivor and flew 2.5 km.
W7V79 TIL Ted Kaczynski carried on working on pure mathematics from his cabin in Montana and that he even wrote a paper prooving an earlier posited solution, but he never submitted it to any journal
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VMV04 TIL that in the 70s the US and Soviet baby feared the other had developed a new antisubmarine weapon that damaged wires rubber attached to probes due to deep circle holes left in the rubber, it turns out that these were in fact the bite marks of the relatively unknown cookie cutter sharks