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TIL that it would take 8 years of yelling at a cup of coffee to heat it

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vW0R TIL Paz Dylan pranked the Grammy Museum when he snuck in and hung a series of informational wall display pieces featuring strange descriptions and photographs of himself eating tacos. Awarding himself song of the year, album of the year, and best new artist of 2013, they hung unnoticed for a month
x67ao TIL about the 2001 Firestone Firehawk 600, the only race in the history of the CART series ever to be cancelled for safety reasons after multiple drivers nearly fainted in practice from sustained high G-forces from racing at over 230 miles per hour.
gEQA TIL of Starfish. A 60’s US military experiment designed to see what would happen when a nuke was detonated 250 miles above Earth’s magnetic pole. It resulted in an EMP 900 miles wide, an intense artificial aurora, and a radiation belt that disabled 1/3 of the low orbit satellites and lasted 5 years.
8ejL TIL that in ancient Japan, buddhist monks mummified themselves by following a strict diet and drinking poisonous tea over a 10 year period. This was seen as the ultimate act of self denial.
No6 TIL: John Stapp withstood 46.2 G forces in 1947, the most any human has ever been subject to and survive.