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TIL Unilever used to have a whaling fleet
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TIL Astronaut John Young got really bad flatulence from drinking orange juice during the Apollo 16 mission to the moon. Unknowingly, he broadcast this fact to the world. “I have the farts again. I got them again, Charlie.”
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TIL Beethoven in his 1822 composition Piano Sonata No. 32 wrote a powerful, heavily syncopated passage that has been described as boogie-woogie, jazz, and ragtime, a style which would not exist for another 70 years.
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TIL microwave ovens can superheat water, meaning it's temperature is above boiling point without the water boiling due to lack of nucleation sites. Disturbing the water will then cause the whole water to instantly boil, creating violent flashes of steam.
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TIL the computers on the Lunar Modules used for the Apollo moon landings used SI (metric) units for their calculations and converted them to Imperial units for the astronauts to read on their instrumentation panels.
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TIL the left-handed isomer of methamphetamine is freely sold under the very altered name levmetamfetamine (not abusable)