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V7KB TIL Project MARAUDER, a coaxial plasma railgun powered by the SHIVA STAR capacitor bank, was designed by the USAF and capable of “[producing] doughnut shaped rings of plasma and balls of lightning that exploded with devastating effects when hitting its target.” It was classified in 1993.
oRMAL TIL in 2021, scientists discovered Eumillipes persephone, a millipede with as many as 1,306 legs, found deep underground in the Australian outback, which makes this species the animal with the most legs on Earth and the first millipede discovered to have 1,000 legs or more.
6ERGl TIL that the egg came first
8Zy8 TIL the Eternal September is a term that refers to the month when Usenet experienced a large influx of AOL users… the network’s existing culture couldn’t integrate the sheer number of new users, and according to pre-1993 users, never fully recovered
woZo6 TIL that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital was founded by a comedian. He was struggling financially and vowed that if he ever became successful, he’d build a shrine to the patron saint of hopeless causes.