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TIL eggshell can withstand 285 times atmospheric pressure in water without breaking

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ADYZ4 TIL Basil Zaharoff sold the Greek government a submarine. He then told the Turks that Greece had a submarine, so they bought two. Then he told the Russians the Turks had two submarines, so they bought two as well. None of the submarines worked.
GJ0N TIL the concept of platonic (non-sexual) love stems from Plato’s disdain for pedophilia, which was a fairly common element of apprenticing at the time in 4th century BC Greece.
l0Pa TIL despite being portrayed as young and healthy, John Kennedy was hospitalized dozens of times and on three occasions given his last rites.
k4aE TIL that Lon Perry used to apologize while restraining people during his robberies and would return family photos from their wallets. He once called 911 for a victim who had a heart attack during a robbery. In 1991, Lon turned himself in to prevent another man from being accused for his crimes.
RJe1 TIL that the flaw that destroyed Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986 almost occurred on another mission a year earlier. One of the astronauts on the 1985 flight was told that “you came within three-tenths of one second of dying.”