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5YEBr TIL that as part of their "armed neutrality" policy, Switzerland strongly considered building nuclear weapons and acquired 10 tons of uranium in the early 1960s, with plans to make up to 100 bombs
pYOQ4 TIL of Didier Delsalle, the only pilot to have successfully landed a helicopter on the summit (8848m) of Mt Everest.
78LoX TIL: Comet Hyakutake had the longest tail of any comet known, stretching to 3.3 AU from the comet nucleus.
b9wDa TIL the expression “sweating like a pig” makes absolutely zero sense. Pigs are physically incapable of sweating.
8aW4L TIL of chemist Carl Scheele, known for discovering oxygen, molybdenum, tungsten, barium, hydrogen, and chlorine, as well as organic acids, died at just 43 as a result of the cumulative effect of exposure to arsenic, mercury and lead. Despite his discoveries, for years others were given credit.