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Today i learned that the reason why you dont feel electricity when you are holding a normal AA battery is because the average voltage of AA batteries are about 1.5V and the human body is about 3V and it will take 48V to even feel anything

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e0OMb TIL that comet tails always point in the opposite direction of the sun. The tail is created by an interaction with either solar winds or photons from the sun.
51XD TIL there is a small town in Australia which has a decommissioned submarine on display in a park, and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ visit to the country community members knitted yellow wool squares to cover the entire sub.
OoRWL TIL that Rick Moranis (Little Shop of Horrors, Spaceballs, etc.) left Hollywood to take care of his 2 children after his wife died in 1991.
wLpDo TIL when Citroen released a van named Jumpy, they renamed it Dispatch in English-speaking markets.
Mo9W TIL: That a lake near Whitefish, Montana named “Nigger Lake” was deemed to be too offensive and was renamed…To “Lost Coon Lake.”