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

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1Mod TIL that during the 20s there was an orchestra in the Soviet union that was led by a committee instead of a conductor, because the idea of a conductor was against Marxist ideals
4XWVa TIL in countries such as Lebanon and Syria, marriage between Druze and non-Druze is banned and frowned upon, and a Lebanese man who married a Druze woman was kidnapped by her family, who beat him up, pulled out some of his teeth and cut off his dick.
neQRd TIL Oklahoma fishermen cannot legally sell paddlefish eggs used to make caviar because the Russian Mafia took control of a rural section of river & started an egg smuggling operation, transporting the eggs for sale in Russia.
KYwkw TIL the Niagara Falls have stopped twice in history; once of natural causes, and the other for maintenance work on the rocky shoal. Aside from those two examples, the waterfalls never stop flowing.
69p5l TIL Cordell Hull was Secretary of State under FDR for 11 years and won the Nobel Peace Prize for establishing the UN