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TIL that tesla coils can be made in such a way to play music

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jvnQ TIL that the lyrics to Elton John’s ‘Rocket Man’ were meant to be taken literally and it is about a Mars bound astronaut leaving his family to do his job.
pbgG TIL When male chicks are born in egg farms, they are considered useless. Thus, they are disposed of, by grinding them alive.
4YlJ TIL dragonfly wings actually kill bacteria. There is a variety of mechanisms for this to happen, but one of those is by literally ripping open the bacteria with sharp, nano-sized pillars that coat the wings.
GVlj TIL: Gamers in Antarctica have used 137.4MB of Steam’s bandwidth.
ZW5p TIL that if batteries had advanced at the same pace as computer processors, a double a cell would contain more energy than a tactical nuke!