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The inside of a proton is under a lot of pressure. The particle’s centre withstands a billion billion billion times the pressure found at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

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Dy7j TIL That in 1998, a US Navy warship became dead in the water after the Navy opted to run the ship on Windows NT 4.0 instead of a more fitting OS. A sailor unknowingly divided by zero, causing an overflow error and killing the entire ship.
mNbY TIL In 1972, Geraldo Rivera exposed one of the worst cases of systematic abuse of the mentally ill in America (Willowbrook)
JYLBl TIL that the town of Zzyzx in California was named by a quack doctor to purposely be the last listing in any dictionary or atlas
VBwGZ TIL that traditional lacquer is made w urushiol sap, aka the rash-causing toxin in poison ivy & poison oak. In fact, "urushi" (as in "urushi-ol") is the Japanese for the Chinese lacquer tree (also toxic) & an English word for lacquerware. They all fall in the genus Toxicodendron, or "poison tree".
xV0Z5 TIL of the Rosewood massacre an attack in 1923 on the predominantly African American town of Rosewood, Fl. by large groups of white aggressors. The town was entirely destroyed by the end of the violence, and the residents were driven out permanently. It was mostly forgotten until the 1980s.