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TIL: The modern Japanese Akita dogs are descended from a handful of dogs that survived World War II

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L1xP TIL The first woman to break the sound barrier was an american WWII veteran. Her own government denied her use of a plane, so she asked the Canadian military. They loaned her a plane plus 16 crew AND shipped them to California so she could break the record even though she wasn’t a citizen.
X0o6D TIL cockroaches can survive radiation because their cells don't divide constantly like human's. "Cells are most sensitive to radiation when they are dividing" and a cockroach molts at most once a week.
X01YQ TIL Nasa estimates a 35% increase in heat transfer would reduce the chances of Yellowstone erupting to almost zero. One proposal is to simply pump more water into the supervolcano.
9YKMp TIL that Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II had young infants raised without speaking to them in the 13th century to determine if there was a "natural" language imparted by God. His experiments proven unsuccessful because all the children raised this way died.
LQrEV TIL During an interview with Stephen Hawking, the camera operator mistakenly tugged a cable, triggering an alert and forcing Hawking to slump forward. Everyone panicked, believing they had wounded him, only to discover he was simply laughing at his own joke. The alert was triggered by an office comp