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TIL Bread goes stale 6x faster in the fridge than at room temperature

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M715a TIL that despite its cultural presence as the doomsday scenario, current models and estimates believe that a nuclear winter is not a realistic outcome following a nuclear war. One analysis said so many successive things would need to go wrong it was akin to a coin landing on heads 40 times straight
RjZ4 TIL In 1960 a terrorist armed with a bomb tried to hijack Trans Australia Flight 408. The co-pilot punched him in the face and ripped the wires from the bomb saving all 49 passengers.
ANKgw TIL that Boston Corbett, the man who shot and killed John Wilkes Booth, had castrated himself with a pair of scissors years earlier
Ooyn1 TIL that China's Great Firewall inventor had to use a VPN during a presentation on the merits of internet censorship
69QAX TIL that every Saiyan name has something to do with vegetables. GOKU's Saiyan name is Kakarot, which is named after a carrot. Broly is named after broccoli. Nappa is named after a type of Chinese cabbage. Raditz is named after a radish, and Vegeta’s name is literally just half of the word vegetables