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TIL The lethality of a bullet fired into the air is the only Mythbusters myth that was given all 3 ratings of Busted, Plausible & Confirmed.

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Rela TIL that, once, while on a tour bus, Busta Rhymes heard one of the songs on Eminem’s “Slim Shady EP” and got so into the music that he smashed his head on the windshield of the bus, breaking the whole windshield, because he said Eminem’s music was so compelling and powerful.
wLvgP TIL about John Morrissey, who went from being a famous gambler during the Gold Rush to a heavyweight boxing champ to the boss of the Irish mob to a New York senator to Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall, which basically controlled NY politics for the Gilded Age, all before dying at 47 years old.
DDv TIL That there is a company that claims to have the ability to convert the worlds waste plastic into oil
GAJXJ TIL That the theoretical black dwarf star is expected to be able to live for up to 10 to the power of 32000 years, meaning that when they go supernova may make it the last transient to occur before the heat death of the universe.
x6vXw TIL Congress wanted a 'Manhattan Project' for Military Artificial Intelligence back in 2020.