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TIL That fuzzy dice hanging on a rear view mirror is a good luck charm with the origins based on WWII pilots keeping gambling trinkets in their air planes.

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mx4gv TIL that our brains cannot comprehend large numbers like the difference between a million a billion. 1 million seconds is 11.574 days but 1 billion seconds is 31.69 years.
4X8ea TIL that the huge Lake Kivu is one of three lakes known to have limnic eruptions, natural disasters that create CO2 gas clouds that wipe out life in the area. It takes place every 1000 years or so and 2 million people now live in the vicinity.
9w78r TIL Water doesn't always boil at 100 degrees
4k01o TIL "flotsam" pertains to goods (i.e. shipping containers) that are floating on the surface of the water as the result of a wreck or accident. One who discovers flotsam is allowed to claim it unless someone else establishes their ownership of it. Even then, items may still be claimable by the finder
46m5 TIL someone invented a circular sling shot or torus device called a “SlingATron” to launch things into space.