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TIL There’s a Service called PotatoParcel that Sends a Message on a Potato to Anyone in the US

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ANbPd TIL the concept and name for the atom bomb was first conceived of by H. G. Wells in the 1914 novel The World Set Free. The story may have influenced the development of the real life weapons, as physicist Leo Szilard had read the novel before conceiving of the neutron chain reaction.
XyNR TIL that a man flew three times on the Space Shuttle without being an astronaut. Charles Walker got turned down by NASA but found a space-related job at McDonnell Douglas. McDonnell Douglas paid NASA $40,000 per flight for Walker to operate its experiments on the shuttle as a payload specialist.
l7O4K TIL an inmate named Charles Justice was released early on parole for designing improvements to the electric chair, using metal instead of leather for the wrist restraints. Months later, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to death by the same chair he had improved
6EnL7 TIL that in America, you have to pay a fee of $40 just to have skin to skin contact with your newborn baby.
x60b7 TIL in 2020 sugar sweetened beverages were estimated to have caused 80,278 deaths due to type 2 diabetes and 257,962 deaths from cardiovascular disease