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TIL When trains were introduced in the U.S, many people believed that that “women’s bodies were not designed to go at 50 miles an hour,” and that their “uteruses would fly out of [their] bodies if they were accelerated to that speed.”

x6New TIL That Live Aid was not about Queen's legendary performance only. It is also about Phil Collins appearing live in London and then in Philadelphia on July 13th, 1985. Yes, he flew in a Concord to perform live halfway around the world on the same day.
e00XD It would take a moon-sized object to move the moon.
XEYJr Today I Learned that, on average, 17 meteorites impact the ground or oceans of Earth. Every. Single. Day.
kOnbe TIL Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson was the first African American woman to earn a doctorate from MIT, and the second in the US to earn a doctorate in physics. She was also made an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2012 and awarded the National Medal of Science in 2014.
6EMd8 Hong Kong-based students, Sum Ming Wong and Kin Pong Li designed a door handle that uses light to always keep itself sterilized. The students were inspired by the SARS outbreak in the 2000s and figured that a self-sanitizing door handle is more effective than the chemical-based cleaning processes we are using right now. The handle is made of a glass tube with aluminum caps at each end and the entire handle is covered in a powdered photocatalytic coating made from a mineral called titanium dioxide. The bacteria is decomposed through a chemical reaction that is activated by UV light reacting with the thin coating on the glass tube.