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

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j6dgQ TIL that "sheeple" is not actually internet slang or a term coined due to modern political discourse. The first documented use of the term appeared in a March 1945 Op-Ed of "The Musical Times' criticizing the BBC.
XGgD TIL we can eat an entire bag of chips without knowing it because chips have a “vanishing caloric density” that is designed to trick our tongues/brain into thinking we haven’t actually eaten anything
DNWJ TIL During WWI, Dominic “Fats” McCarthy was awarded the Victoria Cross after he, virtually unaided, killed 22 Germans, captured 5 machine guns, 50 prisoners, and half a kilometer of the German front. When it was over even the prisoners he’d captured patted him on the back for what he’d done.
renW TIL that “forlorn hope” (the name of the first wave of attacking soldiers in battle, who take the most casualties) is actually a clumsy mistranslation of the Dutch phrase “verloren hoop,” meaning “lost troop.”
PYjJZ TIL the Japanese invaded Kiska, Alaska during WWII. This was the first time that the continental United States was occupied by a foreign power since the War of 1812.