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TIL a 1m hammock made from a single-atom thick sheet of graphene could support a 4kg cat, whilst being invisible to the human eye

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VMv14 TIL by 2015, over 1,200 foreign workers died building stadiums for Qatar's 2022 FIFA World Cup. The Indian Government issued a press release "Considering the large size of our community, the number of deaths is quite normal."
PYjdV Today I learned H.P. Lovecraft had a cat named "N word (hard R) Man".
BrEVD TIL that the Soviet Union sent an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in an attempt to bring back lunar soil. It was in lunar orbit as Armstrong and Aldrin performed their famous spacewalk. It crashed on the lunar surface hours before the Apollo astronauts lifted off for their return to Earth.
woLBM TIL "wi-fi" doesn't mean "wireless fidelity" or anything else; it was made up as a marketing tool and is a user-friendly name to refer to technology that adhered to standards known as IEEE 802.11.
D17r TIL there is a functional cure and vaccine for HIV ready for human trials. It is thousands of times more effective than traditional vaccines.