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TIL A Dead Body in Virginia Was So Obese That It’s Fat Set A Crematorium on Fire

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ev4J TIL that Robert Oppenheimer, during the detonation of the trinty bomb (the first atom bomb), recalled that besides initial laughs and cries, most scientists were silent. Oppenheimer later recalled thinking of a line from Hindu scripture that read, “Now I become Death, the destroyer of worlds”
gravD TIL that an eggplant is technically a fruit
xYj1 TIL naps are predominantly deep sleep and our body is wired for them.
Q8JL TIL that dogs years are not 7:1 to human years, as it is generally thought.
7BLZ TIL string instruments often have a “wolf tone” where the resonance of a certain note creates a conflict between the vibrating string and and the body of the instrument.