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TIL the hottest known chemical flame is produced by burning dicyanoacetylene with ozone; at 6,100 K (5,827 C, 10,520 F), it is hotter than the surface of the Sun (5,778 K).

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xWN5 TIL genius mathematician, philosopher and logician Kurt Gödel eventually starved to death, after his wife was hospitalised and he did not trust eating food prepared by anyone else
ADvlB TIL Wyndham Halswelle won the gold medal for the 400 meter race in the 1908 Olympics. Noone won silver or bronze, as he was the sole competitor.
W7YKo TIL Will Smith opened a k-6 grade school with deep ties to Scientology
Ev7W TIL including humans, all living creatures emit a weak light from their entire body in a process known as “biophoton emission.”
LQ0OP TIL from 1976 to 1989 an unknown taping noise was audible worldwide on commercial and civilian communications (tv broadcast, commercial aviation, SW radio). The source was the Duga radar "The Russian Woodpecker" a huge over-the-horizon radar used by the Soviets as a missile detection system.