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TIL "Nuclear Pasta" is the actual name of the type of matter believed to comprise the crust of neutron stars. If it does exist it would be the strongest material in the universe. It's phases have been given then names: gnocchi, spaghetti, lasagna, bucatini and swiss cheese.

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aw5OJ TIL that on January 2, 1911 revolutionary leader Pascual Orozco Jr. ambushed and killed a number of federal troops in service of the then-standing Díaz regime. He ordered the uniforms of the troops be stripped and mailed back to Díaz with a note saying: "Here are the wrappers, send me more tamales".
1arXd TIL during the opening of 1936 Olympic,Adolph Hitler made a speech which was broadcasted in 41 countries.Due to the high frequency of the signal,it escaped the earth ionosphere.Carl Sagan wrote his book Contact,on alien-human encounter based on this platform that alien heard Hitlers voice first.
Wkvk4 TIL of Episcopal civil rights martyr Jonathan Myrick Daniels. Daniels was murdered by a shotgun-wielding county deputy named Tom Coleman in Hayneville, Alabama, while in the act of shielding 17-year-old Ruby Sales. He saved the life of the young Black civil rights activist.
Ar6l TIL that North Korea once attempted to solve its food shortage problems with ostriches. Most of which end up on the plates of the rich and powerful in Pyongyang.
v10M4 TIL: Julie Taymor became first woman to win Best Direction Tony 1998