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TIL that even though the Hindenburg was inflated with 7 million cubic feet of highly flammable hydrogen gas, it had a smoking room behind airlock doors.

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j66xp TIL in 2009, a New Zealand man tied a shoelace around his little finger to act as a tourniquet and cut the finger off with a jigsaw. He then cooked it in a pan with some vegetables and ate its flesh. The act of self-cannibalism occurred during an episode of depression.
m1dwM TIL there was a 12-megaton explosion that happened over the Tunguska River in Russia on June 30th 1908. It was caused by a meteor air burst between 3 to 6 miles above Earth at about 60,000 mph. It flattened an estimated 80 million trees over 830 sq miles of forest.
nYA9 TIL that Michel Siffre, a French scientist, contributed to the understanding of the endogenous biological clock, also called circadian clock, by staying two months cloistered in the abyss of Scarasson without time cues on a glacier from July 1962.
M7MY0 TIL: The concept of steganography which is the hiding of messages in plain sight. For example, Phyllis Latour Doyle (British spy) parachuted into France to spy on Nazis before D-day. She used knitting to record messages.
bYRZ TIL ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are on its way there