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TIL Nikola Tesla claimed to have invented a death ray capable of destroying entire armies.

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mpGM TIL Herodotus wrote about fuzzy, dog sized ants living in India which dug up gold to build ant hills. For centuries, people assumed it was made up. In the 1990s, scientist discovered a fuzzy marmot living in India that digs up gold whenever it burrows.
OoZMg TIL that in Vietnam they call the Vietnam war, “The American War”
v1ybx TIL that when you splash water on your face, your body instantly begins to prepare your body for free diving, slowing your heart rate and pulling blood into vital organs in what scientist call “the master switch of life”
0wOPy Til that there are over 43 quintillion possible combinations for a rubix cube, and yet you are never more than 20 turns away from solving it
ebpD TIL that a physicist was threatened with 80 years in prison for “sharing U.S secretes” with China. It was later found that he had permission to share the info, and had even been asked by the National Science Foundation to form a coalition with other Chinese scientists.