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TIL TLC is still the best-selling American Girl Group of All Time and second all time behind The Spice Girls

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Adox TIL After a 1942 shipwreck off Newfoundland, locals having never seen blacks before tried to scrub clean those survivors thinking they were covered in oil
vPw8B TIL negative differentiation, suggesting that negativity is conceptualized in a more elaborate and complex way than positivity. Studies show that negative vocabulary is more richly descriptive of the affective experience and there appear to be more terms to express negative feelings.
vZv7 TIL that when told, while working, that his wife was dying, Carl Friedrich Gauss simply responded: -“Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done”
kODMe TIL during a car accident a sodium azide pellet is ignited by an internal car sensor and explodes generating toxic/highly-explosive gas at a 250 mph velocity which undergoes a series of chemical reactions before turning into a non-toxic, stable silica glass... and that's how your airbag is inflated.
YpD9v TIL that after discovering Jupiter's intense radiation belt , NASA needed a last minute fix to shield the exterior cables of the Voyager deep space probes. They sent a technician to the local supermarket, bought all of the kitchen grade aluminum foil, and wrapped it around the cables.