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TIL There was a home-made cryogenic “facility” in Colorado with one person in it since 1993.

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0dv7y TIL in 2000 the LA Zoo had an issue containing two gorillas, Evelyn & Jim, who were both skilled escapists. Evelyn once used a vine to swing across a 12-ft wide moat to spent 90 min watching giraffes & elephants. Previously she swatted a person's behind. Jim once jumped straight over a 12-ft wall.
Oolk7 TIL in 2002 a Chinese Toy Company Made a Handheld Video Game called Laden vs USA Where You Can Either Defend the World Trade Center from Being Attacked or Fly Planes Into It
LGkP TIL George S. Patton held a speech, so popular that it became known as “The Speech” where he justified his “chicken-shit drilling” by claiming “A man must be alert at all times. If not some German son-of-a-bitch will sneak up behind him and beat him to death with a sock full of shit.”
oO6K TIL there is a water filled cave in Nevada that experiences “miniature tsunamis” in response to earthquakes as distant as Japan.
m1xQp Today i learned that the reason why you dont feel electricity when you are holding a normal AA battery is because the average voltage of AA batteries are about 1.5V and the human body is about 3V and it will take 48V to even feel anything