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TIL You should not cook raw beans in a slow cooker.

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Ypw8B TIL during the Chernobyl meltdown, it was feared that molten fuel (corium) would reach flooded areas and explode. Three engineers tried to prevent this, but corium dopped into the water before they arrived. The fuel then cooled into a ceramic pumice and floated around the room, instead of exploding.
b6v49 TIL the writer of Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and The Faculty also created Dawson’s Creek
PYG5L TIL American chemist Alexander Shulgin personally tested hundreds of drugs, meticulously recording their effects in his lab notebooks. He is also credited with introducing MDMA to psychologists in the late 1970s.
M6J8 TIL that, at one time, “batman” was an official rank in the British Army…
j6POM TIL that using the wrong kind of cat litter in a nuclear waste storage facility caused a major accident!