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TIL about The Mpemba Effect- hot water can freeze faster than cold water 🤯

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xVNe5 TIL One of George Lucas’ influences for “Star Wars” was “The Lord of the Rings.”
D1ZND TIL Buster Keaton's famous stunt when a building facade collapses on him, with an open window fitting perfectly around his body, used no trickery. The facade weighed two tonnes, and the mark on the ground telling him exactly where to stand to avoid being crushed was a nail.
e0weJ TIL that Washington state sends it's most dangerous sex offenders to an island in the Puget Sound accessible only by a restricted state run ferry.
gMPd4 TIL that the Yoshiro Nakamatsu, inventor of the floppy disk, would routinely almost drown himself to push his brain and body to the limit in order to feed his inventiveness.
wL6LM TIL "His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular" was the official title of Idi Amin, who ruled Uganda.