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TIL Scientists have actually succeeded in turning lead into gold, through Nuclear Transmutation.

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LkoBQ TIL the story of Isaac Newton watching an apple fall out of a tree often misses an important detail, it was a windy day. The wind blew the apple at an angle as it fell. This caused Newton to wonder if an object could fall at such an angle that it never hits the ground, aka an orbit.
wLE8J TIL that the mostly-improvised film "Waiting For Guffman" took only 29 days to shoot but over 18 months to edit. The long editing process was due to the fact that over 90 hours of footage was filmed, which needed to be whittled down to 86 minutes.
QJd4d TIL that John Pierre-Adams, a French footballer, has been in a coma since 1982 due to a fault caused by an anesthesiologist during a surgery. His wife continues to care for him and refuses to consider euthanasia.
AaDn TIL North Korea is the only nation to currently have a US Navy ship captured.
R768 TIL that in the “Plato’s Stepchildren” episode of Star Trek William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols deliberately flubbed every take of a scene where they did NOT kiss, thus forcing the episode to go out with the kiss intact.