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Today I learned that if you collapse an underwater bubble with a sound wave, light is produced, and the mechanism has not been figured out.

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V07k TIL a flight Ernest Hemingway was on crash-landed in Africa. He and his companions were rescued and put in another plane, which burst into flames on the runway. Finding the door jammed, Hemingway used his head as a battering ram, butted the door twice and got out.
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yQJPe TIL the first computer with a graphical user interface, the Xerox Alto, had a portrait-oriented monitor
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e0Bg6 TIL about Julia Popova, who was stabbed by a mugger as she walked home from work one in 2010 - but she was so traumatised by the attack that she walked home without realising the knife was embedded in her, just a fraction of an inch from her spinal cord.