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TIL The energy required to fuse iron and heavier elements is greater than the energy created during the fusion process

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mx0ZO TIL in the early days of the Food Network, an overnight engineer accidentally put porn on the air that he was watching causing a huge uproar from viewers. This public outcry actually helped the channel succeed because it showed advertisers they had a large audience.
Rkm6 TIL the Ancient Romans would flood the Colosseum to re-enact sea battles
KOYnG TIL that "Video killed the radio star" was the best selling record in Australia for 27 years.
QJQ9L TIL that Usain Bolt set his 9.58s 100m record on a diet of chicken nuggets
OokRL TIL during China’s Ming Dynasty, powdered smallpox scabs were blown up the noses of the healthy. The patients would then develop a mild case of the disease, & from then on were immune to it. Although the technique had a 0.5–2.0% mortality rate, it was better than the diseases 20–30% mortality rate.