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TIL soapy water can solve the ‘connect the towns’ puzzle in seconds, connecting four posts with the minimum possible 'road length’ between them, thanks to it’s tendency to minimize it’s free energy.

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XEGVk TIL Rachmaninoff created a piece based on an inversion of the melody of a Paganini's theme, by flipping the melody "upside-down", reversing its contour, so (almost) all the rising parts become falling parts.
5W0Q TIL that after the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, the U.S. fired missiles at a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan, suspecting that it was related to Al-Qaeda. The following medicine shortage led to tens of thousands of civilian deaths.
R5aKl TIL that in 1905 President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to ban American Football after 19 college students died that year playing the game. In response, 62 colleges and universities met in New York City to discuss rule changes, where they formed the athletic association that would become the NCAA.
VBl1p TIL that the last person verified to have been born in the 1800's died in 2017
9OAD TIL a European hare can run at 37 body lengths per second, whereas a cheetah can only run 23.