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TIL that water droplets can orbit around charged knitting needles.

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kO9A5 TIL Chinese Characters are made up of smaller components called "Radicals", and by just learning some basic radicals you can combine them to make thousands of characters.
epaJg TIL that semi-identical twins are possible. Two sperms fertilize one egg, resulting in 3 sets of chromosomes. Normally, this would kill the zygote, but there are two recorded cases where this resulted in twins.
eJG4 TIL in 2014 a Chinese company built 10 one-story homes in 24 hours using 3D printing technology. Each 2,100 square-foot building costs less than $5,000 to construct. The builder hopes the company’s 3D-printing technology will one day be used to build skyscrapers.
9YJvD TIL of the RP FLIP (Reserach Platform FLoating Instrument Platform), a 355 foot long boat that can fill the front 300 feet with water ballast. Once full, the boat will upend 90 degrees with the aft 55 feet of boat acting as a vertical platform out of the water, like a spar buoy.
7KZr TIL that actor Chuck Connors (“Old Yeller,” “Soylent Green,” “The Rifleman”) once played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and was also the first NBA player to shatter a backboard — in 1946