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TIL that in 1986 the Voyager probe recorded Uranus releasing a huge amount of gas

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WWdL TIL that in 1946 Kodak customers complained about film developing cloudy. Kodak investigated & found the corn husks used for packing was radioactive. They discovered something that was not public knowledge; the packaging was exposed to fallout from the world’s first nuclear bomb explosion.
xAY0 TIL In 2012, A women pushed a man onto subway tracks and killing him because “He looked Muslim” and wanted to take revenge on 9/11
OoQDR TIL an ant wouldn't get killed if you microwave it. They dont have a high enough water content and because they are so small they can "dodge" the hot spots in the microwave just by walking around.
Wk9N4 TIL that during WW2, Bicycle (card company) smuggled escape maps in their card decks to help allied POWS escape from German POW camps. To reveal the map, a card was soaked in water as to separate the two paper layers that make up the cards. The map was on the insides of the card.
QNEdL TIL that Harriet Tubman believed John Brown did more for the black Americans than Abraham Lincoln did.