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TIL aquariums don’t typically keep the mantis shrimp because they are capable of breaking through aquarium glass with a single strike of their claw. Their limbs move so quickly the water around them boils.

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8ZLV TIL the reason Saran Wrap sucks now is because the company that makes it decided to remove an environmentally harmful ingredient, despite knowing that it would hurt sales
mE1M TIL after the release of ‘Top Gun’, the US Navy stated the number of young men who joined wanting to be Naval Aviators went up by 500 percent.
GAe84 TIL about the "Singing Sand Dunes" phenomenon, where certain desert dunes emit a low-pitched hum due to sand grain vibrations under specific conditions
D1waP TIL: The United States tested nuclear weapons in Micronesia and used their population as live guinea pigs to study the effects of long-term radiation exposure.
j6kwM TIL one of the first video games ever created Tennis for Two was made with an oscilloscope (a device for visualizing waveforms) in 1958 by physicist William Higinbotham. Players used a custom one knob, one button controller to try to hit a ball over a net.