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TIL Deadly heat is killing Americans: climate death toll rises after a decade of federal inaction | US news

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8vjV TIL Of ‘Project Thor’: a terrifying weapon system that is shockingly simple - 6 m. Tungsten rods launched from near Earth orbit, invisible to radar, could strike anywhere on earth, impact speed of Mach 10, impact equal to a tactical nuclear bomb but with no explosives.
awdnM TIL Stanley Kubrick wanted to use Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother suite in A Clockwork Orange. Pink Floyd's bassist Roger Waters refused when he found out Kubrick would edit the music to fit the film. Later, Waters asked Kubrick to use sounds from 2001: A Space Odyssey on a record. Kubrick refused.
1aJbX TIL: The gun made popular by James Bond, the Walther PPK, is the same model that Hitler used to kill himself.
e0eYg TIL African Elephants are evolving to not have tusks, protecting themselves from poachers but also harming their species
ADBY7 TIL Winston Churchill's mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, was born in Brooklyn, New York