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TIL about Callin’ Oates: the emergency Hall and Oates hotline (+1-719-266-2837)

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GYd7 TIL Marie Curie’s notebooks from the late 19th century are still too radioactive to be handled
Bdwk TIL Henry Ford’s first Model-T was built to run on hemp fuel and had hemp plastic panels whose impact strength which were 10 times stronger than steel. If hemp were planted on 6% of the US landmass, it could replace all current demand for oil and gas.
VBBD8 TIL the price of carbon fiber for aircraft construction dropped due to innovations driven by the B-2 program in the 1980s and Boeing 777 work in the 1990s
W7VQN TIL That In 2013, a Florida man, Jeff Bush, was sleeping in his bedroom when a large sinkhole opened up directly underneath his bed, swallowing him and his entire bedroom. His brother heard him scream, but was unable to see or reach him in time. Bush’s body was never recovered.
bGy7 TIL that in the film The Dark Knight, the man who shouted “we are not intimidated by thugs,” to the Joker, was actually Patrick Leahy, the senior senator from Vermont and a self-confessed batman fan. He has appeared in a cameo role for every other Batman film since Batman Forever.