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TIL the United States originally planned to build a canal through Nicaragua before taking over the French canal project in Panama

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Obba TIL that in order to transmit radio signals to submerged submarines, one technique is to place electrodes in the ground many miles apart, using the earth’s core as a giant antenna.
Dlpr TIL Gordon Ramsay while filming a scene about puffin hunting fell off an 85 foot cliff into water and survived.
DNrg TIL that Stanley Lieber used the pseudonym, Stan Lee because he was afraid that associating his legal name with comic books would harm his writing career.
mxeYY TIL about Yellapragada Subbarow who discovered that ATP is the source of energy of the cell was refused tenure at Harvard because he was an Indian
gMdgy TIL People in the final stages of hypothermia engage in "paradoxical undressing" because, as they lose rationality and their nerves are damaged, they feel incredibly, irrationally hot. They strip off their clothes to cool themselves down as they are freezing to death and then start burrowing.