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TIL a shot glass filled with neutron star matter would weigh as much as Mount Everest.

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woPNE TIL that Times New Roman was commissioned by a British newspaper called The Times.
1W0X TIL over 100 Doctor Who episodes were “taped over” by the BBC after airing and are likely lost forever, unless recorded on VHS, which was a rarer technology at that time.
p8YM4 TIL the royal family (UK) changed their name to House of Windsor from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, due to German bombers of the name Gotha carrying out a strike on a school that killed 18 children on June 13, 1917.
E1l7P TIL I learned that nobody in the Union army wanted to fire the Williams Cleaner Bullet. It was less accurate than the normal Minie', more expensive to manufacture and it did not clean the barrel at all. Soldiers just threw them away or kept them as a last reserve. The Bullet Nobody Wanted to Fire.
XxgE TIL Saab in 1992 made a prototype vehicle dubbed “Prometheus” that had no steering wheel. Instead, to steer it, the driver had an aircraft like joystick. It greatly increased safety, space and aesthetics. The production model would have had two Joysticks, one for each arm / hand.