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E14xp TIL A very tired chemist once spilled UK's entire supply of plutonium(10mg) on a table, and in order to recover it, used a saw to cut out that section of the table, then burned it. He recovered 9.5mg of the plutonium from the ashes.
wLoZo The numbers tell the story: Of the 648 people killed by lightning in the U.S. from 1995 to 2008, 82 percent were male. And as much as we were hoping to uncover a biological cause—extra iron in the male cranium, perhaps, or the conductive properties of testosterone—it turns out men are... just kind of stupid. “Men take more risks in lightning storms,” says John Jensenius, a lightning safety expert with the National Weather Service.
NXQwe TIL four barracks buildings on US Naval Base Coronado form the shape of a swastika. The shape was supposed to be remedied in the mid-2000s, but it remains in place today.
Lk8pP TIL that Ireland has the oldest average age at first marriage of any country. The average Irish citizen gets married for the first time at age 35.
njvo TIL The Director of The Truman Show (Peter Weir)wanted to have a video camera installed in every theater where the movie was shown. At one point, the projectionist would cut to the live footage of the audience, then back to the movie.