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TIL that electricity flows around copper wires, not through them.

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67BJ TIL that a year after its initial publication in 1908, Theodore Roosevelt (then-president of the U.S.), loved the children’s book “The Wind in the Willows” so much that he wrote the author saying that he had “read it, reread it, and have come to accept the characters as old friends”.
4Nd6 TIL That a company called The SeaStead Institute is trying to establish permanent autonomous ocean communities to enable social, political and legal system experiments. They plan on launching their first island 2014 and had recieved 500 000 dollar donation by a Co founder of PayPal
l79dV TIL The small island nation of Nauru has accumulated an outstanding record in international sport through its weightlifting programme and earned Olympic Diplomas for athletes finishing in the top eight at the Games
neryB Why is it that at the very moment that you should be the most relaxed, you suddenly get seized with the feeling of falling through the air? It's not uncommon. About 70 percent of people regularly face this experience, which is technically known as a hypnic jerk.
wYk6 TIL the vertical smoke lines you see in nuclear explosions are caused by smoke rockets and not the explosion itself