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TIL that MythBusters once fired a cannonball at a bomb disposal range…and missed. Instead, it flew over 700 yards and through a bedroom in which a family was sleeping, eventually coming to a stop in a minivan.

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WBmd TIL 6 Nasa recruits are living for a year under a 36ft in diameter x 20 ft tall dome in Hawaii, to simulate life on Mars. They must wear a spacesuit when outside the dome. Recruits are: A French astrobiologist, German physicist and 4 Americans (pilot, architect, journalist, soil scientist).
N7PlN TIL that actor Jason Mantzoukas (Dennis Feinstein in Parks & Rec) has a life threatening allergy to eggs. Even a trace amount of egg will cause him to have a severe reaction. Once, while on set, he had to be taken to the hospital because of undisclosed egg whites in a parfait he ate.
N7KYQ TIL the South Koreans gave up their gold to help their country. The gold-collecting campaign was a national sacrificial movement in early 1998 to repay its debt to the International Monetary Fund. The campaign, involving 3.51 million people nationwide, collected 227 tons of gold worth $2.13 billion.
X0G8E Today I learned example.com is a reserved domain owned by IANA , created in 1999 (RFC 2606). The domain was set aside to provide an example name that doesn’t conflict with real domains. It can’t be sold or transferred and is a globally recognized placeholder for tutorials.
ZJGQ TIL that a company filtered applications out by those who used Chrome or Firefox instead of Internet Explorer because they were deemed to be more capable.