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TIL cursive handwriting is slower than print handwriting
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TIL that like his brother, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, David Kaczynski also spent years rejecting society, living in a hole in the Texas desert covered by metal sheets. David would return to society and eventually provided the FBI with the tip leading to Ted's arrest.
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TIL that Soviet Armenian swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan was finishing a 12-mile run when he heard a bus crash into the water. He dove down 33 ft, and rescued 20 people, 1 at a time. He is an 11-time World Record holder, 17-time World Champion, 13-time European Champion and 7-time USSR Champion.
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TIL that as a revolutionary, Josef Stalin was arrested and exiled to Siberia 6 times. He escaped the first 5. So for his 6th, he was sent to a hamlet just south of the Arctic Circle where he lived as a hunter gatherer alongside an arctic tribe for 2 years
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TIL that deep-sea mining for valuable minerals like nickel, cobalt, and rare earth elements is being explored on the ocean floor, but the industry is controversial due to concerns that it could disrupt ecosystems.
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TIL that a photon of light can travel the 150 million kilometres from the Sun to the Earth, and in that same time, a gamma ray in the Sun's core will travel only about 13 centimetres. It can take 100,000 years from the core of the Sun to get to the surface — where it bursts out at speed of light.