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TIL water makes different pouring sounds depending on its temperature.

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xjaw TIL that seismometers along Japan’s coast detected the 2011 earthquake and stopped all bullet trains from operating. Only one train, a test train without passengers, derailed.
ymEJ TIL that in the 1780s, the Austrian army attacked itself by mistake and lost over 10,000 men
Y7nVr TIL Nanjing once had a large Forbidden City Palace complex built by the first Ming Emperor Hongwu in the fourteenth century that is now in ruins. Plans were made to build a Presidential Palace on the former Ming Palace grounds when Nanjing became the Chinese Capital again in 1928
X7WE TIL: In 1943, WWII destroyer O'Bannon found itself too close to a surfaced Japanese submarine to aim its guns. US Sailors saved the ship by throwing potatoes at the Japanese crew running to the sub’s deck gun.
wojLW TIL that early versions of Sudoku started appearing in French newspapers in the late 19th century, with the paper La France’s version called the “diabolical magic square”