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TIL that any sufficiently large explosion will result in a mushroom cloud, not just nuclear explosions

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d80DB TIL The world's largest concentration of nukes is housed 20 miles NW of Seattle, and it's defended by trained dolphins.
EgmgW TIL that outside the US and Canada, Duracell uses a pink bunny as a mascot. The Energizer Bunny was created in 1988 to mock Duracell, after Duracell’s pink bunny trademark in the US had expired. The two companies later agreed that Duracell would keep using a bunny mascot in other regions.
WkpN9 TIL Hennig Brand, a German alchemist in the 1660s, was convinced he could distill gold from human urine. After amassing 1,500 gallons of urine and boiling it, he discovered the element phosphorus.
RVEl TIL that the illusion of meeting your doppelganger and switching your consciousness back and forth is called ‘heautoscopy’, and the case studies are the creepiest thing ever.
a8OXN TIL: In 2022, Airbus announced they were going to create a production site in space. They teamed up with the European Space Agency to bring several metal 3d printers into space. The lack of weight and size constraints will allow satellites to be built in space using moondust.