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TIL a full suit of plate armour weighs less than a modern fire fighters oxygen gear

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oR5y8 TIL that to persuade his first wife to accept a divorce, Einstein promised her the entire financial reward from his Nobel Prize. Three years later, he won the prize and transferred all the money to her.
VM1mm TIL Sometime around 1500 A.D., an African farmer planted a maize seed imported from the New World. Today, maize accounts for more than half the calories people consume in many African countries. Maize supplanted Africa’s own historical grain crops—sorghum, millet, and rice
loGBa TIL Annually around 40 million Olive Ridley hatchlings are born in Odisha coast of India and they are monitored around the year from adults laying eggs to birth. Fishing and commercial activities are banned around particular coast. One of the most successful conservation story.
1aRxr TIL NASA Vehicle Assembly building interior volume is so vast that it has its own weather, including "rain clouds form[ing] below the ceiling on very humid days"
0dQWN TIL about the Chandelle, an advanced flight maneuver where an aircraft makes a climbing turn at a maximum performance level to gain the most altitude while reversing direction, used in both civilian aviation for proficiency and in military training for evasion.