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TIL that the photographer Kevin Carter committed suicide because of depression after he took a picture showcasing a little frail famine-stricken girl collapsed in the foreground with a vulture eyeing her from nearby.

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v1dgK TIL fuel tankers are pretty sophisticated. Baffles in the tank to evenly dissipate the force of liquid moving when the truck is accelerating or braking. Without baffles, the liquid keeps moving forward to surge and push against the front wall of the tank, increasing risk of rollover.
Bgpbr TIL about the 1905 Battle of Tsushima between Japanese and Russian steel battleships. The Japanese sunk 21 Russian warships and captured another 5, including the flagship. Only three Russian ships made it back to a Russian port
8wb TIL that Häagen-Dazs doesn’t mean anything; the name originated when the founder sat at his kitchen table for hours streaming together nonsensical Scandinavian sounding words.
DkAj Today I learned that the title for Egyptian proctologists literally translates to “shepherd of the anus.”
R7E88 TIL that comfort noise is artificially created noise used in online phone calls to fill the artificial silence. It is used to give the user the feeling that someone is still on the line.