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TIL The invention of the original silly string was accidental. Was originally intended as a spray-on instant cast for fractures.

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Wk4aN TIL Liquid oxygen has a pale blue color
QJZrp TIL it is estimated around 400 doctors a year commit suicide due to the high demands of their field. Long hours, along with pre-existing mental illness, and constant doubts of inadequacy, are leading factors as to why physicians are among the highest risk to commit suicide out of any occupation.
ney6d TIL that Napoleon's first language was not French. He grew up speaking Corsican and Italian and did not learn French until age 10. Throughout his life he spoke French with a heavy Corsican/Italian accent and never mastered French spelling.
9YRD TIL when Michele Bachmann went on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Roots played a piece from Fishbone’s 1985 song “Lying Ass Bitch”
5Yoep TIL an experiment was conducted into the movement of Apatosaurus tails. It's possible that the dinosaurs may have been able to use their tails like whips and make a sonic boom.