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TIL Homer Simpson makes on average $80,260 a year as a Nuclear Safety Technician

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yVdkl TIL that having a small amount of insulation on a cylinder (like a pipe or water heater) can actually make it lose heat faster than if it were entirely uninsulated. This is known as the critical thickness of insulation. Having more than the critical thickness makes the heat transfer rate go down.
W9P9 TIL that if their characters had aged in a normal timeline based on their first appearance, Tommy Pickles would be 24 years old, Stewie Griffin would be 15, Cartman would be 27, Bart Simpson 33, and Charlie Brown 67.
XvE6 TIL the guitar “crunch” before the chorus in Radiohead’s “Creep” was from guitarist Jonny Greenwood intentionally trying to sabotage the song.
P11wg TIL that Appalachia, long portrayed as uniformly settled by the Scot-Irish and solely inhabited by poor working class Whites, has for centuries had an African American population that in some cases amounted to 25% of Appalachian inhabitants, an omission that manages to stereotype both races.
gMZR9 TIL The world's tallest man as of 2006 was asked to help remove plastic from a dolphin's stomach, and he succeeded by sticking his arm down the dolphins' esophagus and pulling out the plastic by hand