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TIL Sniper bullets can hit targets so far away that the sniper needs to take the spin of the Earth into account (The Coriolis Drift)

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p84Me TIL Stephen Hawking and Isaac Newton were both Lucasian Professor at Cambridge University. Hawking was pictured with Newton's own, annotated copy of Principia Mathematica in 2016 to celebrate the 600th birthday of Cambridge University Library.
Oo9Z4 TIL about Folding@Home and Project 11747
9wQbQ TIL that basketball player Wilt Chamberlain had a boxing match scheduled against Muhammad Ali, and it was set to go ahead, until the owner of the LA Lakers paid Chamberlain more money to call it off.
BreRb TIL: In Soviet labor camps, prisoners would ingest a condom attached to a length of rubber tubing, fill it up with raw alcohol then smuggle themselves back into the camp. Once there, they would be suspended upside down by the other prisoners and used as a human keg.
xVkNo TIL that when people faint at the sight of blood, it's because their body is actually trying to calm them down because they're overly-excited. It overshoots and the person passes out. It's called vasovagal syncope.