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TIL Liquid Helium is the perfect element to keep the superconductive magnets in MRI machines cold

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R7YK8 TIL In 1907 President Roosevelt sailed into Provincetown Massachusetts harbor, eight battleships in two squadrons formed a lane for the yacht to pass through. His mission was to lay the cornerstone of the Pilgrim Monument.
p8y4O TIL in 1900 around a third of all vehicles on the road in the United States were electric.
AayB TIL that Wilko Johnson, British music legend and the actor that plays mute executioner Ilyn Payne in Game of Thrones has pancreatic cancer and has been given 9-10 months to live.
dGj8 TIL that in the Brothers Grimm version of Snow White the Evil Queen wanted to eat Snow White’s organs and was forced by the newly crowned Snow White to dance to death in red-hot iron shoes in the ending.
JOjj TIL Before appearing in his first movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger was already a self made millionaire at 22 years old thanks to his investments in real estate and a mail-order bodybuilding equipment company.