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TIL electron orbitals are 3 dimensional standing waves.

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d8pkQ TIL BBQ Sauce Has Vitamin C In It
Bmoy TIL. The first nuclear missile test in space “starfish prime” knocked out several allied satellites and disabled communications on Hawaii.
7wAr TIL the descendants of black slaves owned by the Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma are still battling with the tribal leadership in a fight to be recognized as full and legitimate members of the tribe, after about 25,000 were disenfranchised in the early 1980s.
OoAoX TIL The name "Sri Lanka" does not come from the fact that it is by far the biggest island off India's coast (Lanka just means "island"). The honorific "Sri" came with the independence movement in British Ceylon. So the name doesn't mean "Lord Island" or "Great Island" but rather "Sovreign Island".
rRv1e TIL that Sam Houston, famous for being president of the Republic of Texas, refused to join the Confederate States of America, predicting that they would lose the civil war. Instead he pushed for the re establishment of an independent Texas.