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TIL that if you bite into a Wint-O-Green Lifesaver in the dark you can see a spark. This is due to a phenomenon called ‘triboluminescence’

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nenB9 TIL that, after their bomber crashed in Japan in 1945, eight American Airmen were taken to Kyushu University Medical School and dissected alive.
m5gp Announcement: Best of 2012 Awards thread is HERE
j08p TIL nut theft is a thing amongst squirrels. To avoid it, squirrels will create false nut caches to trick the thieves.
b9m50 TIL the American B83 Nuclear Bomb has been studied for use in the destruction/deterrence of asteroids on a crash course with Earth. They are 80x more powerful than the Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
gNXW TIL of Deborah Nadoolman, who was a film and theatre costume designer, responsible for the Indiana Jones’ fedora, as well as Michael Jackson’s red and black ‘Thriller’ jacket.