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TIL in 1964, the US government hired two average physics PhDs to design an atom bomb based solely on publicly available information to see how easy it actually is.

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4yy6 TIL Tokyo’s Mitsui Garden Yotsuya hotel offers ‘crying rooms’ only to women. Y. Ezato, the PR representative for the hotel, says with more Japanese women succeeding in the workforce, it’s causing a rise in female stress/anxiety. The rooms include tear-jerking movies, luxurious tissues & warm sheets
JYgB1 TIL A doctor saved the life of a premature baby (Chris Trokey). After 30 years Chris, who was a paramedic, was the first responder to save a person from a burning vehicle, visited the hospital and realized that the man he had helped was the man who had given him the gift of life 30 years earlier.
5vMk TIL that black roses occur in nature in only one tiny village in Turkey
nJ6o TIL that in Toy Biz v. United States, the manufacturing division for Marvel successfully argued in a court of law that mutants are “nonhuman creatures” to get around higher tariffs on toys depicting humans.
m15bp TIL sine and cosine waves are actually a spiral in 3D. The 2D version is just a side view of the spiral.