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TIL: Those weird looking scientific instruments you always see in nuclear test footage contained live pigs [NSFL]

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bBNN TIL that there is a word that rhymes with orange. It’s “sporange” and is a botanical term.
grDX9 TIL in January of 1997, Astronaut John Grunsfeld placed a prank call to the NPR call-in show Car Talk during the Space Shuttle Atlantis mission STS-81.
m1L8Y TIL in 1916, 17yr old Jesse Washington was convicted of murder in Waco. A lynch mob took him from the court and proceeded to cut off his fingers and genitals, they then burnt him to death slowly whilst the hung him by his neck, lowering and raising him in the fire to prolong his suffering.
P5OO TIL that of the 20,000 known species of bees only 7 produce honey.
kQgW TIL Bananas release one positron every 75 minutes. The antimatter equivalent of electrons. This is due to decaying potassium-40.