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rNYKe TIL that Teflon was first used for the first nuclear bombs. The anti-stick frying pan coating was used to coat valves and pipes in the separation of Uranium, which would corrode other materials much quicker. Only after WW2 was it used for cookware.
b9Qgp TIL that all modern horses are likely descended from a single male ancestor. Wild stallions were aggressive and untamable, so he was probably a timid stallion for whom domestication was the only chance to get laid.
mxOjx TIL that after Sputnik’s successful launch in 1957 and American failure to launch their own first artificial satellite into space a few weeks later, the Soviet delegate to the UN offered the US representative aid “under the Soviet program of technical assistance to backwards nations"
a1mM TIL when Robert Downey Jr was eight, his father offered him drugs, which led him to a long life of substance and alcohol abuse. RDJ credits Mel Gibson with helping him get sober and narcotic free.
DJDD TIL the Flash has moved and ran so fast, that he was capable of outrunning and defeating death itself (the Black Flash) by outracing it to the end of time/space, past entropy, the next Big Bang and into the next Universe.