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TIL that digital cameras are often shipped by sea rather than by air because the increase in gamma rays at high altitudes can fry some of the pixels on the sensors. This issue was experienced while filming Superman Returns.

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P1eyO TIL a Dutch pirate captured the Spanish treasure fleet sailing from the New World in 1628. The loss of silver alone was so great that the silver price spiked worldwide, and Spain was nearly bankrupted.
J1RQB TIL Galileo Ferraris' invention of Induction Motor, as well as the Three-Phase power systems proceeded Telsa's by 8 months. Infact, The inventor of the Modern Induction Motor (Squirrel Cage) and Three-Phase Power Systems Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, attributed Ferraris as his precursor.
9gMQ TIL that there’s a part of our brain that consumes more calories than any other and we have no idea where the energy goes.
y9Rv TIL the original actor for Dumbledore, Richard Harris, intended to turn down the role due to his declining health, but later agreed to play the character after his 11-year-old granddaughter threatened to never speak to him if he refused the role.
a80BM TIL Ayn Rand based her protagonists on kidnapper, murderer William Edward Hickman.