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TIL that writing notes by hand causes you to remember the material better than typing it on a computer. This is because when writing by hand, people tend to process the material in depth, rather than just transcribe it verbatim.

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XE896 TIL that a lifetime of thought, bottled up, weighs about as much as one mosquito.
GYANQ Dumping all our nuclear waste in a volcano does seem like a neat solution for destroying the roughly 29,000 tons of spent uranium fuel rods stockpiled around the world. But there's a critical standard that a volcano would have to meet to properly dispose of the stuff, explains Charlotte Rowe, a volcano geophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. And that standard is heat. The lava would have to not only melt the fuel rods but also strip the uranium of its radioactivity.
VMLKm TIL Hugh Jackman buys lotto tickets every Friday for the entire crew while filming a movie. It's a tradition he started 2 months into filming his first American film when he was embarrassed he didn't know the names of half the crew members.
P1OJg TIL That Chemical Lasers Harness the Light from Chemical Reactions Rather Than Electric Light, and They Are Far More Powerful than Their Electric Sisters
QNWjL TIL A close friend of the president Ronald Reagan and an heir to the Bloomingdale’s department store fortune, also known as “father of the credit card”, Alfred Bloomingdale was in a BDSM relationship with his mistress Vicki Morgan, who later was beaten to death with a baseball bat.