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TIL Steel loses 90% of it’s strength at 50% of the melting point and doesn’t need to melt to have a structural failure

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5Qlr TIL that Vlad the Impaler stopped payment of tributes to the Turks. Turkish ambassadors went to Vlad, demanding immediate payment. Vlad, hearing that they were not prepared to remove their turbans as a mark of respect while in his presence, had the turbans nailed to their heads.
loZB7 TIL that Peru is Portuguese for turkey, meaning that there are two countries in the world called Turkey.
j9Jp TIL that Salvador Dali was also known to avoid paying tabs at restaurants by drawing on the checks he wrote as he had a theory that the restaurant would never want to cash such a valuable piece of art.
1a4ZV TIL Germany has an electric highway (eAutobahn) that lets trucks draw power from overhead cables
8kVa TIL that even with SATA 3.0, that SSDs only transfer data at a fraction of their speed due to the fact that SATA can’t keep up with the drive.