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TIL: That a Princeton study determined that America is no longer a Democracy, but rather an Oligarchy.
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TIL researchers in Japan came up with a fire alarm that emits the pungent odour of wasabi to alert people with hearing impairments of a fire. They tested this on 14 subjects, and 13 of them, including 4 deaf subjects, woke up within 2 minutes. It turned out that the 14th subject had a blocked nose.
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TIL In the Mid 80’s, the United States Navy claimed they were searching for the SS Titanic as a cover to find the sunken nuclear attack submarine, the USS Thresher. They accidentally found the Titanic.
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TIL in 1965, To simulate an atomic blast, the US Navy detonated 500 tons of TNT on the sacred Hawaiian island of Kahoolawe, cracking the islands groundwater, draining it into sea
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TIL that in 2011, a 14 year-old amateur astronomer from Canada proved that Jupiter is bright enough to cast shadows on Earth.