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TIL Dynamite is pretty much just tiny algae fossils soaked in nitroglycerin

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wojpM TIL that plants use arithmetic division to calculate the rate at which to use up starch at night
grE6D TIL the Greenbrier Ghost led to the conviction of a murderer in West Virginia
9YW6B TIL the Empire of Japan killed as many as 250,000 Chinese civilians because they helped 67 American bomber crewmen escape.
Oxl4 TIL Ten days after the Chernobyl disaster, further risk of massive thermal explosion was identified, then three men known as “The Chernobyl divers” volunteered to swim through pooled water under leaked reactor to find and release the safety valves. They died few days later due to radiation exposure
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