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TIL it literally rains diamonds in Uranus

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g9k9 TIL Weaponizing weather is against the Geneva Convention.
0dyoA TIL about Gödel's Loophole; A loophole that famous mathematician, Kurt Gödel supposedly discovered in the American Constitution that would allow for the legal transition of American democracy to a dictatorship.
MgRA TIL there is no evidence that iron maidens were invented in the Middle Ages or even used for torture. Instead they were pieced together in the 18th century from several artifacts found in museums in order to create spectacular objects intended for (commercial) exhibition.
XQQr TIL, fungi has been found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, but it is not known if fungus is a cause or consequence of the disease.
ADJPn TIL of the Pelton Wheel, a more efficient water wheel, 1st used during the California Gold Rush. The wheel extracts energy from the impulse of moving water shooting into a split concave bucket, as opposed to water's dead weight like the traditional overshot water wheel.