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TIL I learned about the Delft Thunderclap, an explosion in Delft, Netherlands where a gunpowder store exploded, destroying much of the city and killed Rembrandt's most promising student, Carel Fabritius and destroyed almost all of his works.

KYeMJ TIL that the sharpest teeth in history didn’t belong to sharks or even dinosaurs. They came from conodonts tiny eel-like creatures that lived 500 to 200 million years ago. Their tooth tips were just two micrometres wide, about 1/20th the width of a human hair, making them the sharpest ever measured.
b6g49 TIL Early Superman comics taught kids how to achieve super-strength through exercises in lifting armchairs, getting a super-grip, and achieving super-vision by glancing at distant and near objects repeatedly
enX5 TIL The cat with the Guinness Record for Loudest Purr was measured at 92dB or louder than a lawn mower
oRZYr TIL in 2018, footwear retailer Payless set up a fake luxury store. Their aim was to see if people would be willing to pay luxury prices for their discount footwear. It succeeded, with shoppers agreeing to pay upto about $600 for footwear that would typically cost between $19.99 and $39.99.
1Pw8 [TIL] Director James Cameron reached the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Mariana Trench. He is the first person to accomplish the trip solo. The data he collected resulted in interesting new finds in the field of marine biology, including new species of sea cucumber and squid worm.