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TIL the highest artificial temperature recorded was when scientists at Large Hadron Collider announced that they had temperatures of over 5 trillion K. The team smashed together lead ions at 99% light speed to create quark gluon plasma–a state of matter that filled the universe after the Big Bang.

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x6a0D TIL that Jonathan Nolan said of his brother Christopher, "I’ve always suspected that it has something to do with the fact that he’s left-handed and I’m right-handed, because he is somehow able to look at my ideas and flip them around in a way that’s just a bit more twisted and interesting"
E5gw TIL that sound cancelling headphones work by making a sound exactly 180 degrees out of phase with any unwanted noise. The sound-wave that it sends out interferes with that of the original sound. The two sound-waves cancel each other out and create silence.
mxQmR TIL A bee lives less than 40 days, visits at least 1000 flowers and produces less than a teaspoon of honey. For us, it's just a teaspoon of honey - but for a bee it's a lifetime!
Bg08k TIL that during the Thạnh Mỹ massacre, the Viet Cong deliberately targeted and killed 74 civilians before being fought off by US Marines and South Vietnamese soldiers.
b9lnE TIL that born and raised in Mozambique student filed lawsuit against medical school in US for harassment and suspension for identifying himself as “white African-American.” He was told “never to call himself as an African-American" as it was offensive to others and to people of color.