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TIL that fungus is more closely related to animals than plants.

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ev4J TIL that Robert Oppenheimer, during the detonation of the trinty bomb (the first atom bomb), recalled that besides initial laughs and cries, most scientists were silent. Oppenheimer later recalled thinking of a line from Hindu scripture that read, “Now I become Death, the destroyer of worlds”
kOLJ5 TIL the longest place name in the world is a hill in New Zealand called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu
RmRQ TIL that a pilot survived after spending 15 minutes outside the plane when he was sucked out of the cockpit due to the windshield falling off with only two stewards holding onto his legs. The co-pilot managed to safely land the plane.
p8QA8 TIL that out of 21 phonorecords of Stalin's speech of 1936, one and a half records contain nothing but applause
gMBdD TIL A small island in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay named Tangier Island still speaks a dialect of Old Modern English that sounds the most like British English.