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TIL: The name of the guy who doomed the world is Lee Raymond.
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TIL that the Unabomber, the Shoe Bomber, the Atlanta Olympic Park bomber, the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, and one of the Oklahoma City bombers are all incarcerated at the same prison.
7O9L
TIL that because spiders are actually quite resistant to radiation whilst their prey species aren’t, the spider numbers around Chernobyl have exploded, as the spiders can catch the now-weakened prey insects more easily, whilst being resistant to the radioisotopes present in their food
01rN
TIL of a machine weighing 200 tons that could stream music…over a century ago
GAXrj
TIL If you can voluntarily control your middle ear (tensor tympani) muscles to create a rumbling noise inside your head, you are extremely rare.
ep415
TIL the official cause of the Xbox 360 red ring of death was the poor quality of soldering balls used to adhere the GPU to the motherboard. The fluctuations in temperature when the console was turned on and off frequently, led to the soldering balls fracturing.