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TIL what hypnagogic pop is and that many of us probably enjoy listening to it.

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dQMj TIL that when early humans transitioned from hunter gathering to agriculture, it actually lowered their standards of living.
ywQJ TIL critics of early locomotives feared that women’s bodies were “not designed to go at 50 miles an hour,” and that women’s uteruses would fly out of their bodies as they were accelerated to that speed. Others suspected that any human body might simply melt at high speeds.
5MrP TIL That objects entering Earth’s atmosphere heat up primarily because as they fall they cause the air in front of them to compress and get hot, NOT from the friction with the air.
mxW0o TIL about the Tsar Bomba, a Soviet nuclear bomb that was deemed too powerful to use. It was 1,500 times more powerful than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs combined and 10 times more powerful than all the munitions expended during WW2.
x6g0D TIL of Samudra Raksa, an 8th century wooden ship reconstructed from a stone carving at the Borobudur temple, which then sailed to Ghana via Madagascar and the Cape of Good Hope as plausible proof of an ancient cinnamon trade between Africa and Indonesia.