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XEbQr TIL that squeezing someone's testicles forcefully can kill them
p8oQO TIL that if you add 250 ml of water with 250ml of ethanol you get less than 500ml of liquid.
0w4pL TIL Nazis held a rally at Madison Square Garden in 1939. It was attended by TWENTY THOUSAND people!
Me7AA National Geographic Emerging Explorer Leslie Dewan is helping to revolutionize the nuclear power industry by designing a safer, more efficient alternative to today’s reactors.Conventional nuclear reactors only use about 3 to 4 percent of uranium’s accessible energy. The energy left behind is what makes conventional nuclear waste—radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years—so dangerous. Extracting more of the available energy reduces the radioactive lifetime of the waste. To this end, Dewan is helping to develop techniques that extract 96 percent of the available energy.
9wxkX TIL Since October 31st, 2000, there has always been at least one human being in space at all times. That is 8,199 continuous days and counting.