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TIL There’s actually more energy in one cubic metre of space due to the Higgs field than the Sun outputs in 1,000 years

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78l5M TIL that the Five-0 in the title of the 1960s TV series - Hawaii Five-0 - refers to Hawaii being the 50th US state.
d8g8B TIL: Rusting gears, beams, & wheels on the coast in Marseille show where an innovative ride was. One could pay to use a special cable car that ran underwater. For safety, pro divers went with the tourists as the pods skimmed along the seabed. It opened in 1966, was shut down after around one year.
rRJY4 TIL about Dr. Leonoid Rogozov, a physician who took part in an antarctic expedition in 1961, developed appendicitis and successfully performed a self-appendectomy with the help of a driver and meteorologist at their Antarctic research station.
VB0kQ TIL due to their superior smelling and climbing capabilities, police departments in Southeastern China have started utilizing squirrels as alternate drug sniffer units over the usual canines.
mx01v TIL when Apple was building a massive data center in rural North Carolina, a couple who had lived there for 34 years refused to sell their house and plot of land worth $181,700. After making countless offers, Apple eventually paid them $1.7 million to leave.