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TIL that If two pieces of the same type of metal touch each other in space, they will bond and be permanently stuck together

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a8PgJ TIL Yoko Ono’s uncle Toshikazu Kase was a high ranking Imperial Japanese civil servant and diplomat that was present at the 1945 surrender ceremony on the USS Missouri and was Japans first ambassador to the UN.
R5jY6 TIL that the first indie video game developer is a woman. Joyce Weisbecker wrote games for the RCA Studio II console from 1976 to 1977, and received $250 for her first paying work.
GAxKG TIL - Silicon wafers used for making computer chips are sawed from an ingot of silicon, that is grown as a single crystal, that can be 2m long and weigh several hundred kg.
Abrw TIL Jaywalking was made a law due, in part, to a deliberate effort by promoters of automobiles, such as local auto clubs and dealers, to redefine streets as places where pedestrians do not belong.
j64wn TIL about the gyro monorail a form of rail transport that ran on only 1 set of wheels and ran on a single line of railway track.It stayed upright using a gyroscope and could even bank on turns. It never made it past the prototype stage due to the costs of needing a gyroscope in every car in a train.