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TIL Between 1964 and 1996, the People’s Republic of China conducted 46 nuclear tests in East Turkestan, the homeland of millions of Uyghurs. Some of the bombs were 300 times more powerful than the one exploded in Hiroshima.

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4Dg TIL Some Tibetan Monks can increase their body temperature so drastically through meditation, that they can cause wet sheets placed on their body to steam in rooms as low as 40 degrees Fahrenheit, where most people would go into uncrontrollable shivering and perhaps die
ejoD TIL at the age of 17 Bill Hicks’ parents took him to a psychoanalyst, who, at the end of the session, told him “it’s them, not you”.
wvoJ TIL 700 years ago a monk scraped off the ink of old parchment to write a new prayer book. Recent discoveries find that the paper he erased was a manuscript wriitten by Archimedes that laid out the heart of calculus thousands of years before Newton was even born.
rRYdy TIL the “WD” in WD-40 stands for Water Displacement, and the “40” represents the forty attempts it took the inventors to get the secret formula just right - so right that the same formula is still in use today.
gDbL TIL that the origins of driving on the left side go back to Medieval England where Knights would ride their horses on the left side of the road so if they encountered an enemy their sword hand would be on the correct side - nearly all countries that drive on the left now were once English colonies