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TIL about delta P

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b9wQQ TIL about a Swedish guy called Richard Handl that tried to build a nuclear reactor in his kitchen for months. He spent around 850 USD on equipment and one of his experiments involved boiling radioactive. He was only caught after he called the authorities asking if what he was doing is actually legal
m1PkE TIL during the 1920 trial of Elmer Fisher for the illegal ownership of alcohol, the jury took 1 of the bottles submitted as evidence when they went to deliberate to make sure that it was whiskey. After some time passed, the jury asked for a 2nd bottle. A short time later, it found Fisher not guilty.
QYXa TIL that weathermen in the US were forbidden to forecast tornadoes, because it was believed that the panic caused by tornadoes was more dangerous than the tornadoes themselves.
6MA7 TIL that the French Navy uses distorted proportions of 30:33:37 on the Flag to give better optical proportions
6KJW TIL that alchemist Hennig Brand believed that he could distill gold from human urine. After stockpiling 1,500 gallons of the liquid and boiling it, he discovered phosphorus.