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TIL that instant noodles were invented in response to the mass starvation in Japan following WW2

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16ZZO TIL about Evangelista Torricelli, an Italian physicist and mathematician, and his groundbreaking creation of a vacuum. In 1643, he invented the barometer, an instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure that led to his famous observation that, "We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air."
PYNEE TIL You Shouldn’t Use Cotton Swabs to Clean Your Ears as old earwax is pushed out naturally
jNOGQ TIL that when Argentina were poised to invade Chile in 1978 during Operation Soberanía, Chile drew up plans to poison the water supply of Buenos Aires in retaliation [article in Spanish]
yoV TIL NASA spending has a 14:1 return on investment to the economy
kEr7 TIL of the “Well to Hell” hoax, where it was reported than a group of Russian engineers (while drilling into the ground) broke into Hell, and screams of the damned could be heard. The Trinity Broadcasting Network ran with the story and claimed it proved the existence of Hell.