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TIL that a truck driver without a college degree has researched and published the most accurate account of the Hiroshima atomic bomb’s design

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LNjd TIL King John of Bohemia (who was blind) died in battle (where his retainers would lead his horse into the thick of the fighting, where he would then flail his sword around) was reported to have said: “Let it never be the case that a Bohemian king runs [from a fight]!”
KYd0a TIL The tongue map showing different taste zones is a myth
N7ZWE TIL about Jim LeBlanc, the only man to survive a vacuum. He was a spacesuit technician, and entered a simulated vacuum to test a spacesuit, when his pressurization hose malfunctioned. He passed out in fourteen seconds, but survived with only an earache.
kad5 TIL: The inventor of the Heimlich maneuver believes that the cure for Cancer and HIV is Malaria and has been having unregulated studies conducted in Africa to prove the theory.
awwG0 TIL Singapore is the largest importer of sand world-wide and the world’s highest per capita consumer of sand at 5.4 tonnes per inhabitant