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d8LQE TIL that a duck’s wake always creates an angle of 38.9 degrees no matter how fast the duck is going
KOmkE TIL a Russian cat was used by prisoners to sneak drugs into their penal colony near Moscow. The cat allegedly had 5.79 grams of hashish & 1.56 grams of amphetamine under its collar. Defense/prosecution lawyers each wanted the cat to support their case but it escaped from its kennel before trial.
rNe6o TIL about Kavachi, a submarine volcano in the Solomon Islands. It has been nicknamed "Sharkcano", as it's home to two species of shark that have adapted to living in its hot, acidic environment
gr9Q7 TIL about the Hoover Dam Tragedy. The project's first recorded fatality was surveyor J.G. Tierney, who drowned on December 20, 1922, while searching for an ideal dam site. Thirteen years to the day, on December 20, 1935, the last man to die during construction was Tierney's son, Patrick W. Tierney.
X7Rk TIL that in 2011 after the Fukushima disaster the Russians offered a special barge designed to clean radioactive water, the Japanese turned them down and decided to go with water tanks