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TIL that almost every country participates in “Cloud Seeding”, A method of increasing rainfall from a cloud. Most places use aircraft to disperse something advanced like Silver Iodide or Dry Ice, but Russia tried using Cement and accidentally dropped a 25 Kg sack of cement through somebody house.

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yM4X TIL that Dr. Jack Kevorkian proposed that inmates condemned to death be allowed to choose “medical experimentation under complete anaesthesia (at the time appointed for administering the penalty) as a form of execution in lieu of conventional methods prescribed by law.”
kk94 TIL a pizza delivery man had a bomb strapped round his neck and was forced to rob a bank. He was arrested by police, and was killed after the bomb detonated.
W7Jd8 TIL: A woman born with birth defects caused by Chernobyl including 6 toes, webbed fingers, no thumbs, leg 15cm shorter than the other, and missing some organs, won a gold medal in the paralympics for cross-country skiiing
8a84Z TIL that a reliable, non-defective calculator can randomly make an isolated mistake called a soft error (e.g. returning 2+2=5). The odds of seeing one are astronomically low, and, interestingly, cosmic rays are a main source of the problem.
M7Blb TIL about neuroathletic training. It focuses on the brain's control system rather than traditional physical movement, using sensory activation to overcome training plateaus. This triggers blocked motor processes, improves movement improve blood flow in the brain, and helps in athletic performances