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TIL of Louis Slotin, Manhattan Project physicist who died horribly after his screwdriver slipped and accidentally caused a runaway nuclear reaction.

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N7erN TIL In 2015, more people died from selfie related deaths than shark attacks in Australia
VK5D TIL We are still making scientific discoveries about water because it is so bizarre. Water ice has 15 different phases, and there is now a strange, “quasicrystal” form when the ice is only 2 molecule layers thick.
Y10d TIL that there has never been a fatal attack on a human by killer whales in the wild. However there have been multiple deaths caused by the animals in captivity.
rVP4 TIL Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was, coincidentally, Moon.
xWGw TIL in 1784, Japanese sailor Chunosuke Matsuyama and 43 others were stranded on a Pacific Island after a shipwreck and eventually perished. Before his own death, Matsuyama threw a message in a bottle into the ocean. Over 150 years later the bottle washed ashore in the same town Matsuyama was born.