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TIL we can’t dispose of nuclear waste in volcanoes because they aren’t hot enough to split uranium’s atomic nuclei and make it's​ radioactivity inert

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aw95y TIL that the Boeing 787 airliner should be rebooted every 248 days to avoid a software crash, which would lead to loss of all 4 power units and cause a real crash.
M7yBK TIL that even though Jim Delligatti is often regarded as the creator of the Big Mac, Delligatti admitted that he didn’t invent the Big Mac, but merely copied the “double deck hamburger” marketed by the Big Boy hamburger chain since the 1940s. The actual Big Mac was created to compete with Big Boy.
8eREV TIL the mother of Australian spider species Diaea ergandros allows her babies to suckle blood from her leg joints until she has weakened and (usually) dies. This prevents early cannibalism between the spiderlings, thus resulting in more of the clutch surviving.
1agwD TIL that some scientists theorize that the origin of life is just the inevitable outcome of thermodynamics as a middle-step to increase overall entropy in the universe.
6Eagw TIL one of Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante’s first major influences was Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Hillel Slovak.