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TIL Physicists like using 2000 year old ancient Roman lead in their experiments and this is pissing off archaeologists

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9YJ06 TIL Penn Jillette has a patent for "the "Jill-Jet", a hot-tub jet specially angled for allowing a woman to masturbate against the water stream."
PYd6G TIL about Sabena Flight 548, which crashed on February 15, 1961 while en route to Brussels, Belgium from New York. All 72 souls aboard perished, including the entire U.S. Figure Skating team, who were traveling to the World Figure Skating Championships in Prague.
4krkR TIL that A lightning bolt is five times hotter than the surface of the Sun. The charge carried by a bolt of lightning is so intense that it has a temperature of 30,000°C (54,000°F).
0w1Yj TIL The entire four-minute music video for REM's Imitation of Life took 20 seconds to shoot. According to Michael Stipe, "What you're watching is a loop that goes forwards for 20 seconds, backwards for 20 seconds [...] with one camera, static, and then using a technique called 'pan and scan'..."
dAw7 TIL that Carl Sagan considered Back to the Future 2 the greatest time travel movie ever made, due to the movie’s accuracy in handling the multiple timelines.