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TIL Medieval MMA exists in Russia.
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TIL That dead batteries bounce when you drop them, while good batteries don’t.
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TIL that because of Japan’s increasing senior citizen population, more adult diapers are sold than baby diapers.
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TIL sound travels at about 1,080 feet per second in a fog bank. Steamboat captains, rounding off to 1,000 feet for safety, would listen for the echo from their steam whistle to tell how far from shore they were in a fog. An echo heard 1 second after whistle means the boat was 500 ft from shore.
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TIL that during WW2, P-51 Mustangs were given wooden wheels at the assembly plant before they made their first test flights.
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TIL Queens of the Stone Age chose the name because they felt “Kings of the Stone Age” was too macho. “Rock should be heavy enough for the boys and sweet enough for the girls. That way everyone’s happy and it’s more of a party. Kings of the Stone Age is too lopsided.”