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TIL-Tapping the top of a shaken soda can does nothing to prevent the soda from bubbling out. Tapping on the side, however, does.

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xRvD TIL that the 5th oldest tree in the world was destroyed when a 26 year old model set a fire to see better while she was smoking meth inside the hollow trunk. She was turned in by friends after showing them pictures of the fire and telling them “I can’t believe I burned down a tree older than Jesus.”
N7avQ TIL NASA gave away hundreds of trees that have been to the moon. They never kept track of who they gave them to. Now they are trying to find them. One was at the White House.
1G5X TIL Japan has as few as two gun-related homicides a year.
0kRM TIL there exists patents for a nuclear powered drill that heats up the tip of the drill to high enough temperatures to melt rocks and create a glass coated tunnel.
oBmJL TIL: Moon looks reversed from Australia