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TIL molten glass becomes a conductor of electricity.
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TIL that the NFL theme song by Scott Schreer is actually a combination of two of the tracks he made in two days with the inspiration "Batman on steroids"
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TIL the US House of Representatives was banned from editing Wikipedia after staff were caught making “persistent disruptive edits”, including naming former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld as an alien wizard who eats Mexican babies.
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TIL About the Iroquois Theatre fire of 1903, in which over 602 people died. It gained a lot of attention as the victims were mainly women and children from an upper-middle class background. The theatre had been falsely billed as “absolutely fireproof”, but lacked basic safety infrastructure.
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TIL that Mao Zedong was responsible for more deaths than Hitler or Stalin.Political scientist Rudolph Rummel (1932–2014), a non-China specialist who made wildly higher estimates than any other historian—that Mao was responsible for 77 million deaths.
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TIL Open-faced sandwiches are inspected by the USDA, while closed-faced sandwiches are inspected by the FDA.