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TIL an Australian man wearing a nylon jacket and wool shirt built up 40,000 volts of static electricity, resulting in burned carpets, melted plastic, and a massive evacuation.

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4y1R TIL an Austrian scientist created goggles that turned his vision completely upside down. Stumbling and tripping over everything at first, in just 5 days his brain completely adapted to the vision change and he saw everything as ‘normal.’
R7R9w Let’s say you’re doing 100 mph in a car and suddenly a downed tree, stopped the car, or person appears in the road up ahead and you need to slam on the brakes. How much more dangerous is that situation than when you’re doing 70 mph? Your intuition might tell you that 100 mph is only 30% more than 70 mph. But as this video shows, the important factor in stopping a car (or what happens to the car when it collides with something else) does not speed but energy, which increases at the square of speed. In other words, going from 70 mph to 100 mph more than doubles your energy…and going from 55 to 100 more than triples it.
e0Ew6 TIL that Jewel, the singer who had hits such as "Who Will Save Your Soul", "Foolish Games", and Roy and Pam's song from the office, "You Were Meant For Me", started her career in a yodeling duet with her father, until she moved to Michigan to study opera.
96d6 TIL American is not actually the most obese country in the world; it actually ranks 18th in obesity prevalence
oLKL TIL Depressed people lack HGH, a requirement for growing while sleeping