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TIL that plasma used to cut steel plate is hotter than the surface of the sun.

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R59ja TIL that the opposite of exorcism is adorcism: the practice of inviting positive spirits into places or people.
yQBa8 TIL Buckminster Fuller was a renaissance man -- expert in architecture, design, engineering, science, cartography and education. Self-described 'comprehensive anticipatory design scientist ' generating ideas and artifacts that cross boundaries and defy normality
PYnRe TIL Seattle, Washington's North Transfer Station waste collection plant has a viewing room and playground on its premises
JZw1 TIL In 1924 Paavo Nurmi won four golds, but couldn’t participate on the 10 000 m: “Nurmi was so furious that he took to the warm-up track next to the stadium and ran the same distance at the same time. Ritola won gold with a world record, but just outside Nurmi had finished first.”
R7bow TIL creation of the most sacred fire in a Zoroastrian temple requires combining flames from 16 different sources, one of which is a funeral pyre; however, funeral pyres are forbidden in Zoroastrianism as corpses are thought to defile the flame.