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TIL “Fire responds strongly to electric fields and is even pretty conductive”

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VMPWQ TIL - Walt Disney negotiated the rights to build a nuclear reactor in 1967, after hiring a German physicist, Heinz Haber, to lay the groundwork for research into nuclear energy, which would be used to power Disneyland.
0voA TIL that dogs align themselves with the earth’s magnetic field when pooping. Raw indicates that dogs not only prefer north-south direction, but at the same time they also avoid east-west direction.
DAKg TIL There is a theory that says that a large part of the Amazon rainforest may be a giant ‘orchard’, the legacy of a people who flourished between 450BC and 950AD.
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