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TIL that the power density in the Solar core is about 276.5watts/m3, less than the power density produced by the metabolism of an adult human.

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R7LVw TIL that, when World War 2 began, the US had the 12th largest army (behind Brazil) and the 18th largest air force in the world. By summer 1944, we were building bombers at the rate of one per hour.
JYAwm TIL all the gold ever mined in human history is smaller than the statue of liberty.
rR4ro TIL Chrysler built 55 turbine-powered cars from 1963-1964. It could run on any fuel that could burn with oxygen, including perfume and tequila, and produced 130 horsepower. Only nine still exist.
KKWw TIL archive.org hosts over 2000 MS DOS games that you can play right in your web browser for free.
aaZb TIL the Nissan Z series was originally named the Fairlady by the president of Nissan in Japan. The U.S. head knew this wouldn’t appeal to the American male market, so he removed the Fairlady labels from the cars that arrive in the U.S. and replaced them with the internal code for the project, 240-Z