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TIL Aerogel (an ultralight material used by NASA) was created by a scientist as the result of a bet whether he could replace the liquid in jellies with gas

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47db TIL In 1676, Turkish Sultan Mehmed IV demanded a surrender of Zaporozhian Cossacks. Their reply is considered one of the rudest diplomatic correspondences in history, which included niceties such as “Fck your mother” and “Goat fcker”
9YNWM TIL: Since the declaration of independence the USA has never had a food shortage but recently around 14% of American are food insecure.
VWZ4 TIL Uzbekistan executed two men by boiling them alive… in 2002
xVxJo TIL: Martha Washington lived in "The White House", a plantation owned by her first husband, John Custis. The actual White House was finished and first occupied by President John Adams, and was first actually called the "White House" by Teddy Roosevelt.
oBpoY TIL in Tennessee it is unlawful for any male person to willfully refuse to aid a policeman in making a lawful arrest when such a person's assistance is requested by the policeman and is reasonably necessary to effect the arrest.