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TIL that Polypropylene can reach a higher maximum temperature than any other plastic

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6Eyym TIL the Golden Gate Bridge emits a noise thanks to the new retrofit, similar to air passing through a reed instrument. The designers made it intentional.
8O5a TIL that while making the film ‘Armageddon’, about oil drillers being trained as astronauts to save Earth, star Ben Affleck pointed out to director Michael Bay that it would be easier to train astronauts to become oil drillers. Bay told Affleck to “shut the &(* up”.
6rNY TIL there are more slaves today than at any time in history. While American slaves in 1809 were sold for around $40,000 (inflation adjusted), a slave nowadays can be bought for just $90, making replacement more economical than providing long term care.
e0PJ5 TIL that a man named Oswald can be heard only at Embankment station saying "mind the gap". In 2012 they were planning on changing all voiceovers but decided not to at this station when Oswalds wife told them that he had passed away in 2007. She loved listening to him when on the way to work.
PRmO TIL in the 1980s that a powerful ring of MPs and ministers were sexually abusing teenage boys in sex parties in Elm Guest House in London. Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens gave a dossier of names of paeodphiles associated with Parliament. It was “lost” by the home secretary, Leon Brittan.