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TIL "Charlie bit my finger" was on Osama Bin Laden's computer

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oRl87 Til the first recorded use of sonar technique was by Leonardo da Vinci in 1490
69VGJ TIL every time a deck of cards is shuffled the probability that sequence of cards has ever existed before is infinitesimally small due to the immensity of 52!
WkpYN TIL that Natalie Portman speaks Hebrew(native), English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese. As a student, she co-authored two research papers that were published in scientific journals.
VM0EZ TIL out of the 3 volunteers who went in 1986 on a suicide mission to open the valves of the pool at the Chernobyl plant 2 are actually still alive
Rmx7 TIL the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs also caused volcanoes to erupt everywhere, acid rain which burned flesh and vegetation, sulfuric gas that blocked out sunlight for years, vaporized rocks as deep as the sea floor, and mega tsunamis up to 2 miles (3.22km) high.