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TIL of a comet that survived passing through the Sun

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nWlj7 TIL Often truncated, Oppenheimer's fuller quote was "I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'"
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PYR5Z TIL it is not recommended to flush a scorpion down a toilet, as scorpions can survive being under the water hence they may come back out that same toilet or crawl up the drains and into your home
7r48L TIL that house dogs mimic us as a result of their pack animals origin, and that dogs with injured owners will sometimes limp
VZDp TIL In 2010, a Bitcoiner named Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10 000 BTC (about $25 at that time) for two pizzas. Now the bitcoins have a value of $6,5 million