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8eyMZ TIL that the number of Chinese restaurants in the United States surpasses that of McDonald's and KFC, totaling approximately 45,000, which underscores the popularity of Chinese cuisine within American culture.
pkJA TIL in 1986 a truck carrying sulfuric acid crashed in Spain - the driver and his wife were found dead, but there was no sign of their son, apart from his shoes. Interpol has called it the ‘strangest missing person case in Europe’
j691j TIL a 1995 experiment by Oberholzer et al showed DNA replication inside tiny spherical lipid bilayer structures called liposomes (similar to cell membranes)- mimicing early cellular conditions. They showed that DNA replication, through the polymerase chain reaction, can occur within these liposomes.
xVA95 TIL the US military's Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) can project speech narrowly enough to be heard by a single person 300m away. American soldiers in Iraq used the device to speak directly to specific insurgents, claiming to be the voice of God and ordering their surrender
WkaaY TIL: In Vietnam, a bridge over 1,800 feet long has along its length a sculpted yellow metal dragon lit for night display and able to spray water from its mouth --but, most impressively, it can exhale giant fireballs. (It's meant to be a visual tribute to North Vietnam's conquest of Da Nang city.)