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TIL modern nuclear weapons are thousands of times more powerful than the ones used in WWII

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5MW9 TIL an amateur chemist created a material called Starlite that could withstand temperatures up to 10,000 degrees Celsius. He feared losing control of the rights to the material and therefore never revealed the composition, which is still unknown.
Oo566 TIL that medieval dentists knew how to fill cavities, treat facial fractures, could spot oral cancer, and even knew the basics of whitening teeth. Evidence also suggests they knew how to create dentures out of cow bone and human teeth.
JYdjQ TIL that medieval forests near inhabited areas were actually more managed then most forests today and functioned more like semi-wild gardens.
Oopp7 TIL that ants sleep but not in the sense we understand sleep. Research into sleep patterns of insects showed that ants have a cyclical pattern of resting periods which each nest as a group observes, lasting around eight minutes in any 12-hour period.
e01eb TIL that the murdered body of a man was found 40 years later after an unusual for the area fig tree grew out of a seed in his stomach.