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TIL that mere hours are sufficient to form fossils aka the Medusa Effect aka flash petrification

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graO8 TIL that in 1929, American Paul Galvin did not invent the car radio, but instead realized and eventually capitalized on the viability of the emerging trend. Along with his brother Joseph and William Lear, he made the car radio as important to driving as the steering wheel.
X0jDP TIL: FDR's grandfather made his fortune snuggling opium into China; igniting the first war with European powers when the Emperor tried to enforce drug laws.
mxvWO TIL that the Russians partied so hard after the end of WW2 was announced that the entire city of Moscow ran out of Vodka.
Bg0ne TIL the Las Vegas Sphere's theater screen required such high resolution that they made the largest commercially available sensor, a 316 megapixel camera capable of 18k resolution. The image on the screen is 16K driven by 25 synchronized 4K video servers, taking up to 60GB per second of footage.
58GQ TIL that comedian Eddie Izzard can perform in 5 different languages and is working on learning 2 more