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TIL Whaling is illegal in Oklahoma, even though there aren’t any

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d8KRK After exercise, fast food helps you recover just as well as sports supplements.
Kyl4 TIL bulbs used in the IMAX projectors are under such high pressure, handlers are required to wear body armor when changing them.
9gbX TIL: That the USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned ship still in active service.
e0kDE TIL the highest artificial temperature recorded was when scientists at Large Hadron Collider announced that they had temperatures of over 5 trillion K. The team smashed together lead ions at 99% light speed to create quark gluon plasma–a state of matter that filled the universe after the Big Bang.
OGLRY TIL that the Roman emperor Caracalla ordered the city of Alexandria to be plundered, and it's prominent citizens be massacred, only because of a satire that mocked Caracalla's usurpation of power.