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TIL that stainless steel does rust, and the likelihood of corrosion depends on the chromium content of the stainless steel.

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6EyWl Til 60% of all vocabulary in the modern Japanese dictionary are chinese loanwords
KElE TIL if you polish an ancient sword that’s been used in battle, even a 2000 year old sword, it literally bleeds out the blood of the people it’s been used on, which “smells like a steak cooking”.
xYJb TIL that Eli Whitney’s cotton gin is short for “cotton engine”.
6Ev1W TIL in 1987, FBI agent Robert Hanssen was tasked by his superiors to find a mole within the agency after the FBI's moles in the KGB were caught. In reality, he was the mole, working with the KGB since 1979. He was eventually caught in 2001 and is currently serving 15 consecutive life sentences.