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TIL store-bought pressure cookers can be an appropriate substitute for commercial autoclaves.

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kJ4wE TIL the "metals of antiquity" are gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, iron, and mercury.
N7N1J TIL that in the 70s, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, tried creating its own artificial coral reef by dumping some 2 million used tires into the ocean. It became an environmental disaster, naturally, but also a military training exercise when divers had to retrieve the tires (almost one by one).
5Vw5Q TIL in 1982, Sune Bergstrom won the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine. His son Svante Pääbo, who was the result of an affair, won the same prize in 2022, despite a very distant relationship with his father. This was the 8th time a parent-child pair both received the Nobel.
N7JaQ TIL Futurama's gag about French being an undecipherable dead language was replaced with German being the dead language in the French dubs.
AlRn TIL that, unlike the depiction in Gravity, running out of oxygen in a spacesuit is a “cheerful” experience where the diminished 02 means “Everything seems funny. And as you’re laughing about it, you slowly nod off.”