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TIL When the A Bomb was dropped in Hiroshima, the light from the fireball was so intense that it melted the copper in the surrounding buildings.

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R7y18 TIL between 6,000 & 9,000 years ago, the people of the Levant decorated the skulls of their dead with plaster, gave them shells for eyes, and painted intricate details of hair and moustaches on them. It's not known why.
6EybJ TIL that that fluting sound some pigeons make when taking off are made by their wing feathers, and serve as an alarm system to other pigeons.
e0VZg Today I learned that one of the first human names ever recorded and is still used in modern times is Anita.
WkAOd TIL of Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley)- Located in the Western Desert in Egypt, this site contains the fossilized remains of whales that show their evolution from life as a land-based animal to becoming an ocean-going mammal.
xv6w TIL that Bradbury wrote the entire novel “Fahrenheit 451” in the basement of UCLA’s Powell Library on a pay typewriter that he rented for a fee of ten cents per half an hour. It took him only 9,80$ and 9days.