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TIL that aniseed balls were incorporated into limpet mines in the 1930s. The balls were situated between striker and detonator and dissolved in a consistent time of ~35 minutes, allowing saboteurs time to escape after being attached to a target.

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mxEgR TIL that the creator of Rocko’s Modern Life, Joe Murray, was asked by executives to put a female role model in the show. After some back and forth, a female executive requested “"a professional woman, someone with a good hook.". So, Murray created Dr Hutchinson, a female doctor with a literal hook.
mVLR TIL there is an extinct genus of ape, Gigantopithecus blacki, which stood up to 3 metres tall, weighed as much as 540 kg and have actually been contemporary with modern humans for tens of thousands of years. (Sorry if repost)
YpDeW TIL That Lewis Caroll was a conservative mathematician, and wrote many scenes in Alice in Wonderland with the intention of being satiracal representations of other mathematicians at the time
4Qpa TIL: the Ogallala Aquifer, the aquifer that is responsible for supplying water for 30% of the United States agriculture, may be depleted by the 2028. The cause: over farming, as well as the coal and oil industries.
wojb7 TIL that U.N. officials & diplomats in America & other countries often provide a college prep education while homeschooling their children through the International Baccalaureate program. They prefer this practice, which is distinct from other homeschooling, because the diploma's respected overseas.