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TIL The Korean soccer player who scored and knocked Italy out of the 2002 World Cup immediately lost his contract with his Italian club Perugia for ‘ruining Italian soccer’.

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Yp7m7 Consider the autoclave, which scientists use to sterilize tools and which issues scalding steam to do so. Or consider the heat gun, which is used to dry glassware and to warm distillation devices. It can also ignite anything flammable that gets too close. Glass containers in a vacuum can implode, spraying shards everywhere. Centrifuge rotors can fail, causing explosions that throw shock waves throughout a lab filled with chemicals. Steel vessels built to contain liquids and gases at hundreds of pounds of pressure per square inch can rupture, hurling metal at lab workers.
bae4 TIL approximately 62.5 percent of the 24,000 chemicals added to the TSCA inventory since 1982 cannot be “meaningfully identified by the public” because their names are claimed as “trade secrets.” If a chemical’s identity is not known, it is very difficult, if not impossible to monitor human exposure
grALy TIL about Ashrita Furman, who has set more than 600 official Guinness Records and currently holds over 200 records, thus holding the "Guinness world record for the most Guinness world records". He has been breaking records since 1979.
arpJ TIL Argentina and Chile are the only two countries you can “Dig to China” from.
ADblw TIL Japan Airlines Flight 1628 over Alaska had a 42 minute long UFO encounter Supported by Radar Data and Air Traffic Control and Voice Cockpit recordings leaked in 2001 by FAA Division Chief of the Accidents and Investigations division John Callahan.