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TIL Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop sold "bio-frequency stickers" made of the "carbon material NASA uses to line space suits" they claimed would "rebalance the energy frequency in our bodies." When alerted to the product, NASA said their spacesuits weren’t even lined with carbon material.

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m1PjR TIL Electron microscopes produce only black and white images. Colour doesn’t exist at that scale, because the things it images are smaller than the wavelength of visible light but false colour as often used
N7JwP TIL that Steve Callahan survived 76 days lost at sea in a small raft after his sloop sank due to a collision; where he faced sharks, lack of drinkable water, food and atrophy. His survival skills were sought after by the director of the critically acclaimed Life of Pi.
gMDRy TIL about Robert Kahn, a Jew who was forced to play his violin for Nazis while they held his parents and ransacked his home in 1938. Later, he hid the violin. He fled the Nazis, served in the US Army in WW2 and, years later, retrieved the violin from hiding, but never played it again.
97wB TIL that Eminem’s song ‘Rap God’ is in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most words in a song (1,560 words in 6:04 minutes at an average of 4.28 words per second)
0wbWv TIL: The Nixon White House considered using nuclear bombs on North Vietnam