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TIL Pressure differentials can trap and kill divers underwater

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dDpo7 TIL it costs the US government 3.69 cents to make a penny. The cost to make a nickel is 13.78 cents.

JYn4v TIL That on September 11th, 1973, Salvador Allende, the first Marxist to be democratically elected to President of Chile, was overthown in a CIA-backed military coup; a 17 year-long US-backed military junta led by Augusto Pinochet followed, in which thousands of dissidents were persecuted.

WkXj9 TIL That Orson Welles had met both Hitler and Winston Churchill in his lifetime

grme7 TIL when Guns N’ Roses were making the song “Sweet Child o' Mine”, producer Spencer Proffer suggested adding a breakdown at the song’s end. The band agreed, but were not sure what to add. Axl Rose then started saying to himself, "where do we go? where do we go now?” And thus, the breakdown was born.

ZpY8a TIL Frogs can’t vomit. If it eats something bad, it throw out its entire stomach. This is called full gastric eversion. The frog then wipes the stomach hanging out of its mouth with its front feet to remove any stray bits. Then it packs the whole thing back into its body.