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M7Dj7 TIL Paraguay has a province named after former US President Rutherford B. Hayes. This is because Hayes arbitrated a large border dispute in 1878, granting the vast majority of the disputed land to Paraguay. Despite being mostly unknown in the US, Hayes is considered one of Paraguay's heroes.
jNMKM Most textbooks say that nothing can go faster than light, but that statement actually should be qualified: The answer is yes, you can break the light barrier, but not in the way we see in the movies. There are, in fact, several ways to travel faster than light...
P1xXZ TIL that an indian doctor Murugappa Modi did 833 cataract surgeries in single day!
p8Qvp TIL that after Adidas produced a shoe in the USSR for the 1980 Olympics the Soviet government stole the design details and mass produced bootleg versions for their special forces called Mockbas. These shoes remained in production until 2011
97pG TIL a London skyscraper’s curved glass facade caused a series of fires - reflected and concentrated sunlight spontaneously ignited the carpets in adjacent businesses and melted parts of cars parked nearby