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mxrnv TIL that in Washington state you can challenge someone to mutual combat and fight in the street. Both parties have a free pass to engage in violence with their bare fists with no weapons. As long as both parties consent to the fight, the police will allow it to occur.
VMkXm TIL of William Rankin, a fighter pilot who survived ejecting into a thunderstorm. He encountered very low temperature, frostbite, massive wind and lightning, severe decompression, and nearly drowned from breathing in rain water. Overall, he was in the cloud for more than 40 minutes.
0wO6N TIL there is a concept for so called Solar Updraft Towers that are generating electricity from low temperature solar heat without solar panlels
w9NW TIL when puppies play, young boy dogs often let the girls win, so as to entice the females to play with them.
5gD9 TIL the astrophysicist who first proposed what is now know as the “Big Bang” theory, was the Catholic priest, Georges Lemaître.