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TIL that Joe Montana, Ronnie Lott and other members of the San Francisco 49ers are singing the backup vocals on the Huey Lewis and the News hit song “Hip To Be Square” from 1986

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d8Z09 TIL the derogatory Canadian term "Hoser" originated in the pre-Zamboni days of ice hockey, where the losing team would have to hose down the ice to resurface it. The term Hoser became synonymous with loser or idiot
yVvnl TIL that a solar storm in 1859 was so powerful that it caused telegraph lines to catch fire, and people could read newspapers at night by the aurora borealis.
xpLb TIL before the launch, one of the scientists took Laika home to play with his children. In a book chronicling the story of Soviet space medicine, Dr. Vladimir Yazdovsky wrote, “I wanted to do something nice for her: She had so little time left to live.”
nWXer TIL that leaving a Plasma Globe Lamp near a device like a laptop or a phone sends a strong enough radio signal to mess with the functionality of it.
m1xQp Today i learned that the reason why you dont feel electricity when you are holding a normal AA battery is because the average voltage of AA batteries are about 1.5V and the human body is about 3V and it will take 48V to even feel anything