› added 8 months ago

32

TIL Thermonuclear bombs are mostly styrofoam. The radiation channel is filled with polystyrene foam, a crucial component for the device's function, making up the bulk of its volume

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

j61dR TIL that humans can enter a state called hypnagogia, the state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep
xVyOo TIL from 2012 to 2016, after slews of nude selfies, beats, sexts and party invites, a lawyer named Jonathan Nichols finally realized that his phone number was 1-900-Mix-Alot.
a8rQb TIL India once released 25,000 flesh-eating turtles into the Ganges to eat the remains of corpses buried in the river after incomplete burning. The locals ate the turtles.
e06l5 TIL Juan Catalan Spent nearly 6 months in jail for the murder of a teenage girl until his lawyer found unused footage from HBO's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' that proved he had been at a Dodger's game with his 6 years old daughter.
mxewO TIL that the US accidentally created an artificial radiation belt around the earth in 1962, by detonating an hydrogen bomb in the upper atmosphere. It resulted in the destruction or damaging of 30% of the satellites in lower earth orbit, and knocked out electric devices 1 300 km away from the blast