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TIL Human Hair has about the same tensile strength as steel of the same width

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v1YMj TIL the loudest undistorted sound possible on earth is 194 decibels. Above that threshold the sound waves become shockwaves.
B55D TIL a gay penguin couple was given an egg of their own after the biological penguin parents abandoned it and the adopted parents are doing an amazing job of raising their new baby
On9Y TIL that Jackie Kennedy called Martin Luther King jr a “terrible man” and claimed he was drunk at JFK’s funeral
5Vda9 TIL that Stuart Anders, the inventor of the slap bracelet, donated 200 of his original bracelets called the "Slap Wrap" to Florida elementary school students after they were given a Chinese knockoff brand which had inappropriate pictures printed on the metal beneath the bracelets' cloth wrapping.
Zpwdo TIL the Eiffel Tower has been painted nearly twenty times. It’s been shades of red, yellow, brown, and grey, and has never been painted black.