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TIL Before doing Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie built a battlebot. It was banned from competitions for being too dangerous to the audience.

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e01Z5 TIL Rats were not to blame for the spread of plague during the Black Death, according to a study by a team from the universities of Oslo and Ferrara. After comparing infection data to models, they concluded that the spread of the Black Death can be "largely ascribed to human fleas and body lice".
b6y09 TIL Diamonds rain on Saturn and Jupiter due to extreme atmospheric pressure. Methane breaks down into solid carbon, the raw material for diamonds. Over time, carbon crystallizes into the diamonds we know, thanks to the planets' unique conditions.
5LlB TIL we have never opened the door to The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, Qin Shi Huang who had the Terracotta army built for himself.
kZ54 TIL that some snipers are trained to control their breathing to the point that they train to shoot between heartbeats for increased accuracy
xVOOB TIL Dick's Sporting Goods is named after its founder, Dick Stack