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TIL, On saturn, it literally rains diamonds | BBC Earth
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TIL Marie Curies research papers are still highly radioactive and to access them you must sign a waiver and wear protective clothing.
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TIL Pan-Am's first Round-the-World flight was unplanned. The flight's return journey via Hawaii was cancelled after Pearl Harbor was attacked, and with the help of Auckland's library system, a route was plotted to return to America via Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Congo, and Brazil.
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TIL the sci-fi technology of the "mass driver" or electromagnetic catapult is real. The first prototype was built in 1977 for only $2,000, and the device was theorized by a sci-fi writer in 1937.
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TIL Eric Clapton grew up thinking his mother was his sister, his grandmother was his mother, and his step-grandfather was his father
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TIL Hawaiian shirts are called 'Aloha shirts' in Hawaii. More subdued versions are "considered formal wear in business and government and are thus regarded as equivalent to a shirt, coat, and tie". Everyone wears Hawaiian shirts to work every day.