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TIL vending machines are more deadly than sharks due to falling on people

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Ll6p TIL The United States tested what a nuclear blast would do to a human by using pigs. “The test was a failure; unlike people, the pigs managed to survive with third degree burns all over their body.”
OLYg TIL the American Humane Association withheld its “no animals were harmed…” disclaimer for “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” because the filmmakers accidentally killed several tropical fish while making the movie
Wkm5X TIL Islam prohibits Muslim men from wearing anything made of gold or silk, only women are allowed to wear those
R5DXQ TIL I learned that the birthplace of wine was not Italy, nor France, but Georgia.
p8Zlp TIL When two subatomic particles called “bottom quarks” fuse, they release more than 7x the energy of individual fusion reactions in hydrogen bombs. The physicists who made this discovery kept it a secret until they were certain the discovery cannot be weaponized.