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TIL steel doesn't need to melt to lose it's strength. At 50% of the melting temperature it already loses 90% structural integrity.

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PYK9J TIL about Hemigrapsus estellinensis, an extinct species of crab that lived solely in a small saltwater spring in the Texas panhandle, 500 miles from the ocean. Probably a relic of the Pleistocene Era, the species was wiped out when the U.S. Army built a dike around the spring in 1964.
yJNa TIL a study of 2 million insurance claims concluded that 9 of the top 10 occupations causing car accidents are medical-field related, with the most accidents being caused by Surgeons and GPs
pYwV8 TIL of Mimizuka, a shrine in Kyoto, Japan dedicated to 68,000 Korean and Chinese noses collected during Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea in the 1590s. The Japanese killed at least 1 million Koreans & Chinese during the wars and collected at least 215,000 heads.
YpKbv TIL that all vodka is pretty much the same, and that Smirnoff beat all the expensive brands in a blind taste test
5Y5Yr TIL the Canadian city of Medicine Hat became the first city to end homelessness by giving every person living on the streets a home with no strings attached. The strategy has meant associated declining costs in terms of crime and health care, and child welfare services