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M7mMm TIL that Erector Set inventor Alfred Carlton Gilbert also designed a toy lab set using radioactive material that was sold in 1950. The toy's amount of radiation exposure was equivalent to a day's UV exposure from the sun, provided that the radioactive samples were not removed from their containers.
5VGQ8 TIL that scientists have created a new form of ice called "superionic ice" that exists as both solid and liquid at the same time
x6Mag TIL in 1868 King Mindon of Myanmar commissioned the Burmese-language Buddhist canon to be written on 729 stone tablets, each 1 meter tall. Each tablet is housed in its own structure at Kuthodaw pagoda in Mandalay. Although now black, the letters were originally inscribed in gold.
4k1LJ TIL the Ancient Greek ruler of Miletus, Histiaeus sent a message by shaving the head of his most trusted servant, "marking" the message on his scalp, then sending him once his hair had regrown, with the instruction, "When thou art come to Miletus, bid Aristagoras shave thy head, and look thereon."
nWdmP TIL that sustaining the filibuster in US political history has, at various times, involved: preparing a pee bucket, reading the phone book, reciting recipes, and in one most remarkable case, restraining Robert La Follette from hurling a brass spittoon at Joseph Robinson in 1917.
9wgQX TIL. About 10% percent of Union soldiers in the American civil war were under the age of 18. The official enlistment age was 18 but many lied about their ages to be able to fight. Some even ran away from home to do so.
W75xA TIL Mike White Was on Survivor and he cast several of his cast mates in White Lotus
R5mnQ TIL that in order to circumvent speaking limits designed to prevent filibustering, a Canadian politician introduced a bill that named every body of water in Ontario in its title.
woMK1 TIL there is a term for phobia of other people’s opinion of you. It’s called Allodoxaphobia and it can be treated through therapy
69pQJ TIL that Accent Group own lots of the Australian footwear market including Dr.Martens,Glue, Henleys,Herschel,Hoka,Hype,Merrell,Platypus,Saucony,Skechers,SneakerLab,StyleRunner,The Athlete's Foot,Timberland,UGG,Vans +More
OGbMR TIL Tuberculosis is listed as the oldest contagious disease to affect humans by the Guinness World Records
X0948 TIL that Archimedes supposedly invented a giant lens that focused the power of the sun to burn enemy Greek ships