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TIL Mister Rogers defended public television to the US Senate; his testimony helped convince the Congress to increase funding to PBS, rather than cut it in half, as President Nixon wanted

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DW4J TIL Mount Kosciuszko was thought to be the highest mountain in Australia until Mount Townsend was found to be slightly taller. Rather than re-educating the public that Townsend was the new highest mountain, the New South Wales Lands Department simply switched their names.
5yo9 TIL the blue dye in M&Ms has been found to reduce spinal injury in rats, with the unfortunate side effect of temporarily turning them blue.
67w TIL that Dip Prasad Pun, a Gurkha soldier, single-handedly fought of at least a dozen Taliban assaulting him. He fired more than 400 rounds, launched 17 grenades, detonated a mine, and used his tripod as a weapon when his gun failed.
XZY8 TIL there is a Japanese expression, ‘manaita no ueno koi’, meaning 'a carp laid on a chopping block’. It is used to describe a person who keeps their cool in the face of an imminent and definite danger, and derives from the carp’s uniquely calm disposition when it is about to be cut up.
OMg6 TIL That Hot vents at the ocean Sea bed heat the water up to 400°C and the pressure of the water above stops it from boiling.