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TIL that solid closing sound that doors on expensive cars make is faked to make them appear sturdier than they actually are

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78eAP TIL that after the Great Isaiah Dead Sea Scroll was discovered, scholars found over 2,600 small textual differences between it and the 1,000 year younger Jewish Masoretic Text - but the meaning of the texts remained mostly identical
neYpY TIL that Emma of Normandy married both Æthelred the Unready, the King of the English, and Cnut the Great, the son of Sweyn Forkbeard who overthrew Æthelred. Her sons by each, Edward the Confessor and Harthacnut, each became king of England.
VBPm TIL that 35 million years ago, with the force of millions of nuclear weapons, an asteroid slammed into earth instantly turning the ground below it into diamonds
DQw9Y TIL:A study by the University of Chicago found that laughing gas is useful in treating depression, with the same effects as ketamine therapy in low doses. Subjects were divided into 3 groups, high dose, low dose, and placebo. High dose led to more side effects and low dose made them sleepy.
9jx6 TIL there are unicellular organisms with a diameter of 2 inches.