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BrE0K TIL In WWII, U.S. heavy bomber pilots would make ice cream by strapping buckets of ice cream mix to their planes before missions. The cold and turbulence of the flight would churn the mix into ice cream by the time they landed.
J1pyk Today I learned that the Jambato Toad was believed to have gone extinct back in 1988 due to being wiped out by a fungal disease, but the species was rediscovered in 2016.
dAGE TIL that there are mathematical objects with non-integer dimension (instead of “2D” or “3D” the objects might be “1.58D” or “0.6D”)
v1L9L TIL there is a genetic form of insomnia called Fatal Familial Insomnia which results in the inability to sleep, hallucinations, and eventual death of the patient with a few years.
KOMwQ TIL East Germans defected by various ways like digging long tunnels under the Berlin Wall, waiting for favorable winds and taking hot air balloons, sliding along aerial wires, flying ultralight aircraft and, in one case, driving a sports car at full speed through the basic, initial fortifications.