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TIL Dolph Lundgren arrived at MIT, after earning a Master's in Chemical Engineering, with girlfriend Grace Jones on the back of his motorcycle

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6EdvX TIL about asteroid J002E3, which was discovered 16 years ago orbiting the earth. It turned out to be the 3rd stage of Apollo 12, which had come back to earth orbit after going around the sun for over 30 years.
NXAxe TIL why the traffic lights are red yellow green ; the first LED were ever created was red and then green was invented and the mix of two is yellow and the blue LED took 30+ years to get invented and thus creating RGB light and the modern color panels ..,
KDKw TIL that instead of chucking live lobsters into boiling water or splitting their heads open, you can anesthetize them with clove oil before cooking. And as a bonus, it makes them taste better (probably due to reduced stress hormones and reduced hemolymph loss).
vPejD TIL: Starfish Prime was the largest nuclear test in space. At 250 miles in the air, it EMPed 900 miles of Hawaii, frying electrical systems, setting off burglar alarms, and shut down 6+ satellites due to the months long radiation belt. After 5 years, traces of the electrons still linger in space.
v1O58 TIL about Aimo Koivunen, a Finnish ski commando who in 1944 escaped from pursuing Russians by taking 30 pills of Pervitin. He skied for 400 kilometers in -20C temperatures with no food and ammunition, got injured by a landmine, and had a pulse rate of 200 beats per minute by the time he was found.