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TIL that 37% of Brits believe their jobs are meaningless.

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JlPv TIL If you collapse underwater bubble with soundwaves, light is produced. It’s called sonoluminescence.
EgR0d TIL there is a medieval monastery under construction according to the plans of early ninth-century Saint Gall, using techniques from that era.
4kDBg TIL of the 2006 Dreamspace V Incident. A giant inflatable art piece by Maurice Agis that you could walk around in, it would later fly into the air following a wind gust killing 2 and trapping 20-30 others.
p8EWA TIL that on January 14, 2005, the Cassini spacecraft landed the Hguyens probe on the surface of Saturn’s moon, Titan. It is the first probe to land on a surface in the outer solar system and remains the farthest any man-made spacecraft has landed.
9n0M TIL there have been computers programmed in “ternary” instead of the conventional binary. One such computer, built by the Soviets in 1958, had distinct advantages over binary computers such as increased power efficiency, cheaper parts and easier implementation of certain operations.