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TIL About a mysterious sonar ping discovered near the titanic and that has been recently discovered to be a volcanic reef abundant in life

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X0k7P TIL Disney's "Corey in the House" has a Nintendo DS game and it has one of the highest rated user scores on the Metacritic. "Rarely does a work so groundbreaking and epic in scale exhibit such a visceral, searing arc of human pathos"
m1xVv TIL that Sir James Chadwick, the English physicist who discovered the neutron and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1935, actually enrolled in Physics by mistake when he was a University student. He wanted to study maths. He also led the British team of the Manhattan project.
gR7W TIL of a political and economic movement in the 1930s that purposes to replace politicians with scientists and engineers who they believed were better suited to guide a nation.
oBblY Today I learned that in America, a M-134 (commonly referred to as a Mini-gun, due to the small caliber relative to its weapon type) can be legally owned by a civilian. And 11 of them are. And that a traditional Gatling gun isn’t considered a machine gun so it can also be owned completely legally.
1a46d TIL that Didcot, Oxfordshire is the most normal town in England.