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nZRW TIL that in 2009 armed robbers used a helicopter to abseil onto the roof of a cash depot in Sweden. The cash was dropped into a local lake where it was picked up boat. To deter police the robbers used caltrops on local roads and fake IED’s on the police helicopters to keep them grounded.
x0Lk TIL British scientists found three previously unknown species of mushrooms in a commercial packet purchased from a small Chinese supermarket in London
6957W TIL: There is a system of units, Planck Units, for length, mass, time, and temperature based universal physical constants, such as the speed of light, rather than a choice of prototype object. It is mostly used in quantum mechanics.
brNE TIL that the longest continuous experiment was started in 1927. The goal was to demonstrate that some substances that appear to be solid are in fact very-high-viscosity fluids. The viscosity of the pitch used is 230 billion times that of water, taking several years to form a single drop.
KOLxa TIL: Some farmers in Bangladesh have switched to raising ducks instead of chickens, because during catastrophic floods, ducks float.