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TIL modern processors run mostly powered off (in sections) so they don't melt immediately

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yVgPl TIL that in 1966, after a gas well in Uzbekistan burned for over three years, the Soviet Union used a 30-kiloton nuclear bomb detonated deep underground to crush the pipe and seal the leak by vitrifying the surrounding rock.
E1b4W til that president mckinely was shot and killed a few weeks before he was set to try out one of the world's first bullet proof vests, which would've stopped the bullet that killed him
XGRQ TIL that Fazal Din a soldier in the British Indian Army was impaled by a Japanese officers sword. He then turned the tables by removing the sword from his chest and killing 3 japanese Soldiers, 1 of which an officer.
NwJ1 TIL PCP is a lower schedule drug than cannabis.
4AAb TIL There is no archaeological evidence whatsoever that suggests Jews were ever enslaved in Egypt