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TIL that there’s a 4-mile long river in Peru that’s so hot that it actually boils

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wLjd8 TIL all iPhones since 6s have the capability to be used as a digital scale, but Apple bans scale apps because the concept of a scale app is “not appropriate”
OobK1 TIL that in 1971, as part of an experiment to study the causes and effects of landslides, Japanese scientists watered down a hill using fire hoses to simulate the effect of a torrential rainstorm. The soil on the hill gave way and the resulting landslide killed 4 scientists and 11 observers.
9wMBB TIL the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC displayed a working "Little Boy" Atom Bomb that lacked only uranium until 1986. Then the Department of Energy took the bomb from the museum to remove its inner components, so it could not be stolen and detonated with fissile material.
0wNEA TIL Starbucks wasted millions of litres of water by letting their taps run all day and banning their employees from turning taps off
oOYE TIL that MIT researchers studying tongue twisters developed “Pad kid poured curd pulled cod,” which nobody could say 10 times fast. Some who tried it just stopped trying to talk.