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TIL that a boiled egg can be unboiled with centrifugation

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Xx1X TIL That the ‘Happy Birthday’ song had an 80 year copyright claim on it and was only recently abolished
j59R TIL in the 70s the US tapped an underwater comm line located between two USSR harbors using navy divers deployed from a submarine. Submarines returned with divers every month to retrieve the tapes, and The soviets never found out despite having a network of sonar sensors!
mxYgY TIL The Real McCoy was Elijah McCoy. He invented a lubricating cup for Trains that allowed them to be oiled without stopping. Owners of the device called them the real McCoy
ZEaB TIL a man built up so much static electricity in his clothes as he walked that he burned carpets, melted plastic, and sparked a mass evacuation.
p84rA TIL about the marathon monks who run/walk a double olympic marathon (52.5 miles) each day for 100 consecutive days, in a quest for enlightenment.