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TIL that aluminium weighs more than concrete per volume (1m3)

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JY8Jm TIL that the Oneida silverware company was started by a religious millennial group (1850) who practiced free love and would have menopausal women train the young males how to not ejaculate during sex as a method of abstinence.
4kDBg TIL of the 2006 Dreamspace V Incident. A giant inflatable art piece by Maurice Agis that you could walk around in, it would later fly into the air following a wind gust killing 2 and trapping 20-30 others.
eQ4D TIL A Canadian military veteran amputee had to submit annual paperwork to prove his legs were still missing in order to continue his disability benefits.
e0Ddk TIL Everyone on Helios Airways Flight 522 (2005) passed out due to hypoxia. A flight attendant woke up and tried to control plane but failed. The autopilot kept the plane fly nearly 3hrs until the fuel ran out and crash, killing all 121 passengers and crew on board. This known as “Ghost Flight”
4kEvX TIL that white dwarf stars will eventually cool to form black dwarf stars, but none yet exist because the universe is not old enough