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TIL that chopsticks actually replaced forks in China after they were developed, as opposed to the country having never developed them as many people think.

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YpA1W TIL that in 1964, three physicists who just got their PhDs were tasked with developing a working design for a nuclear weapon using only unclassified information. The goal is to see if a country can develop a nuclear weapon without aid. They accomplished it within 2 and a half years.
1alO7 TIL A scientist embedded LEDs in a prop prosthetic arm to demonstrate an electric eel attack. Each flash in the video represents the firing of the nerves in a potential predator. In each of the volleys at 600 volts, there are 200 pulses per second, a very good rate for causing pain.
e0j5D TIL of the “White Declaration of Independence” and the violent overthrow of democratically elected officials in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898
OmR6 TIL Bud and Kelly were played by different actors in the original pilot of Married with Children. Ed O'Neill (Al) didn’t think they chemistry was right and they were replaced. Here’s the footage.
Oov4 TIL Tommy Boy is a rendition of Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Tommy is the Prince, his father dies, his mother (Bo Derek) is Gertrude, in reality married to his “step brother” (Rob Lowe) who is Claudius. David Spade’s character is Horatio.