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TIL about the Torino Scale, a tool used to determine the likelihood of an asteroid impact with Earth.

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b6lx0 TIL that the Great Vowel Shift between 1400-1700 was a series of pronunciation changes in English. With that many words froze with spelling and pronunciations not matching. This is why some English vowels are a mess with words like "meat" and "meet" being spelt differently but pronounced the same.
bMyN TIL John Forbes Nash Jr., the man whose life was depicted in the film ‘A Beautiful Mind’, said the film inaccurately credited newer antipsychotic drugs to his recovery. Director Ron Howard said it was done so not to encourage schizophrenics to stop taking their medications like Nash.
m1lAY TIL about longest tennis match in history, Isner beat Mahut 70-68, in Wimbledon 2010; it lasted 46h34m spanned over 3 days (match was suspended twice due to fading light); this can't happen again due to new tiebreaker rule introduced in 2019
nMxP TIL Dropping molten glass into cold water produces a tadpole-like shape whose head can withstand hammer blows, but which explodes violently if it’s tail is damaged
kbZm TIL that the vault at Fort Knox has an escape tunnel in case somebody gets locked in.