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TIL that Daniel Fahrenheit (who invented the mercury thermometer) set 0°F to the coldest stable temperature he could maintain in his lab by dissolving salt in water.

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xWGw TIL in 1784, Japanese sailor Chunosuke Matsuyama and 43 others were stranded on a Pacific Island after a shipwreck and eventually perished. Before his own death, Matsuyama threw a message in a bottle into the ocean. Over 150 years later the bottle washed ashore in the same town Matsuyama was born.
R5Vw9 TIL: Mavis Beacon is a fictional character and not a real woman who wanted to teach everyone typing
691BX TIL the USMC once used a modified version of DOOM to do simulation trainings
woJLo TIL about the SS Eastland, which rolled over while docked in the Chicago River, killing 844 people. The incident is considered the biggest loss of life on the North American Great Lakes.
g7b9 TIL The highest-earning female CEO in the US was born a man