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8akZZ TIL that old physics textbooks are wrong about the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse. It wasn't due to resonance, but aeroelastic flutter
N5y1 TIL there is an alternate full length Anchorman movie called “Wake Up Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie” made up of scenes that didn’t make the final cut.
pYW8O TIL: During the Medieval period, Divorce by combat which is depicted in the 1467 German book, Fechtbuch. The wife is given 3 rocks in a sling due to her husbands physical advantages while the husband is given a club and is forced to stay in a hole.
KOLDJ TIL Scottish scientists were awarded £250,000 in funding for a 3 year program to breed sheep who fart less. First they will work out how much methane the sheep produce; then they'll attempt to create more of the animals who fart the least.
oBkXL TIL that "hapa" is a Hawaiian word for "part" that has spread beyond the islands to describe anyone who's part Asian or Pacific Islander.