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TIL Russian has surpassed German the second most used language on the web (behind English)

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JYYkk One of agriculture's most dangerous substances, anhydrous ammonia requires several precautions to handle.
KY6wJ TIL historical linguist Max Müller had several theories about the origins of language. These include the Bow wow, Pooh pooh, Ding Dong, and Yo he ho theories.
N7XRP TIL that in 1980, nuclear physicist Glenn Seaborg transmuted several thousand atoms of bismuth into gold at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Seaborg's technique would have been far too expensive to enable routine manufacturing of gold, but his work was close to the mythical Philosopher's Stone.
oZYY TIL That the US Navy trialled a form of active camouflage called Yehudi lights on torpedo bombers during WWII
xV87g TIL The Octavia was an effects pedal designed for Jimi Hendrix by his sound technician, Roger Mayer. It reproduces the input signal from a guitar one octave higher and/or lower in pitch, and mixes it with the original and added distortion fuzz. It can be heard in guitar solos on the song Purple Haze