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TIL Steel Tractor wheels keep the Amish from getting too comfortable and modernized

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wL5KJ Historical photos show fishermen with chinooks almost as tall as they are. A century's worth of dam-building, overfishing, habitat loss and hatcheries has cut the size of the average fish in half.
166jD TIL that Vince Gilligan almost didn’t go through with making Breaking Bad because he found out that Weeds was in development and had a similar premise. If he had known about Weeds earlier we wouldn’t have Breaking Bad.
GlDN TIL that there is a card game in which asking about or explaining the rules is against the rules: “New players are expected to join a game and deduce the rules of play by observation, trial and error.”
oRnVo TIL Astatine is the rarest naturally-occurring element on Earth with even its "most-stable" isotope having a half-life of around 8 hours! A sample of the pure element cant be assembled as it would be instantly vaporised by the heat of its own Radioactivity! ( Astatos is Greek word for 'unstable' )
AD9Od TIL Hugh Laurie realised he had severe clinical depression after feeling neither excited nor frightened after seeing two cars collide and explode in front of him. He later commented: "Boredom is not an appropriate response to exploding cars."