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TIL WWII ship wreaks are just years away from releasing ~15 million tonnes of oil as their hulls rust away. 400x more than the Exxon Valdez disaster.

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m0Bv TIL that Monty Python member Graham Chapman’s final words were reported to be “Sorry for saying fuck” to a nurse who accidentally stuck a needle in his arm shortly before he died.
16ZZO TIL about Evangelista Torricelli, an Italian physicist and mathematician, and his groundbreaking creation of a vacuum. In 1643, he invented the barometer, an instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure that led to his famous observation that, "We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air."
EdEw TIL there was chinese herbalist who, some believed, lived to be 256 years old
ZpGlQ TIL Tsukuba Syndrome, a phenomenon where researchers in Tsukuba Science City, a research hub northeast of Tokyo, committed suicide in the 1970s-80s. The suicide rate was more than twice that of the general population. In late 1985, three people from the same lab took their lives within a month.
7k5Z TIL the Aston Martin factory only uses one robot; it applies adhesives to bond aluminium body panels together and is nicknamed “James Bonder”