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TIL in 2007 a NASA astronaut drove 950 miles wearing diapers in order to confront her rival in a love triangle

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M7Ab7 TIL about the Kadaknath chicken breed in India. Because of melanin pigmentation, the entire chicken is black or grey-black in colour, including plumage, legs and toenails, beak, tongue, comb and wattles; even the meat, bones, blood and organs
p8ZdO TIL that Volvo opened up the patent for three-point seatbelt cause "it had more value as a free life saving tool than something to profit from"
mxLZo TIL Urine therapy was partly inspired by the Bible verse, "Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well."
KO04G Protons are made up of even smaller particles called quarks, so you might expect that simply adding up the quarks’ masses should give you the proton’s mass. However, that sum is much too small to explain the proton’s bulk. And new, detailed calculations show that only 9 percent of the proton’s heft comes from the mass of constituent quarks. The rest of the proton’s mass comes from complicated effects occurring inside the particle, researchers report in the Nov. 23 Physical Review Letters.
yGWM TIL Vikings may have fought under the influence of shrooms and large amount of alcohol in order to go berserk. (berserksgang)