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TIL The Halifax Explosion was the biggest man made non weapons test explosion that resulted in casualties, with force equivalent to 2.9 kilotons of TNT the explosion caused 60 foot tsunami's and a shock wave that traveled at 7889 meter/s (23X speed of sound) and temperatures of 9,000°F at the center

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r5Kx TIL of a blind experiment in which artists and an art historian couldn’t differentiate between modern art masterpieces and works by 4-year-olds. An artist described one of the children’s pieces as “a competent execution of abstract expressionism.”
bBD4 TIL ecstasy isn’t actually that bad for you. Actually, it could be a good treatment for PTSD. Thanks pharmacy school.
VMo6D TIL Sweden was the first country to put a eugenic state into practice before WW2 and the first state that set up for racial biology, an estimated 63,000 women were sterilised who were deemed to not have ‘Aryan-like’ genes, it ended in 1973 and compensation has been paid since 2000 to any victims
Zp8no TIL in the 2nd round of the 1977 Badminton World Championships, Flemming Delfs was disqualified for arriving too late to the court before the deciding game but his opponent Ray Stevens refused to accept victory on a walkover. Delfs won that match and later ended up winning the tournament.
xVexb TIL that at age 35, Harrison Ford fitting a door for Francis Ford Coppola when a studio executive, testing actresses for new film, asked him to help out by reading the lines written for the male lead. The film was "Star Wars".