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In this hectic world, there’s often not much time left for ourselves. And while amid all the chaos we rarely forget to feed our bodies (and if you do, you’re having a burnout!), we often fail to think of replenishing our mind.

But the good news is, it's never too late to pump that brain muscle! So in order to nourish our curious inner child hiding deep behind first-world problems, we are about to feast on some ‘Today I Learned’ bits and pieces of information from the subreddit by the same name.

From things like how a Titanic survivor who spent 6 hours waist-deep in freezing water later won the Wimbledon Men's Doubles in 1920, and a Costa Rican fisherman becoming best friends with a crocodile after he treated it from a headshot, these are things you just don’t learn in books.

And if you’re still hungry for some more trivia facts, make sure to check out our previous TIL posts here, here and here.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community A local fisherman in Costa Rica nursed a crocodile back to health after it had been shot in the head, and released the reptile back to its home. The next day, the man discovered “Pocho” had followed him home and was sleeping on the man’s porch. For 20 years Pocho became part of the man’s family.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community Norway hires shepherds from Nepal to build paths in the Norwegian mountains. They have completed over 300 projects, and their pay for one summer equals 30 years of work in Nepal.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm Norwegian and I had no idea about this. Huh. They've traditionally been made and maintained by mountain enthusiasts on a volunteer basis. I guess there aren't as many of them around anymore.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community Architect Alejandro Echeverri was approached by the mayor of Medellin, one of the most dangerous cities in the world, to revitalize the city. He focused on building in the poorest areas first to bring people and infrastructure into these neighborhoods. Crime dropped substantially.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community Richard Norris Williams was a Titanic Survivor who spent over 6 hours waist-deep in freezing water - after rescue doctors wanted to amputate both his legs - he refused and went on to win the Wimbledon Men's Doubles in 1920.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community Chemists have developed two plant-based plastic alternatives to the current fossil fuel made plastics. Using chemical recycling instead of mechanical recycling, 96% of the initial material can be recovered.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community Helen Keller was accepted to Harvard in 1900. Mark Twain introduced her to Standard Oil magnate, Henry Rogers, who paid for her education. And in 1904, she became the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor's degree.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community The oldest living elephant is Vatsala, living at an Elephant camp in a Tiger Reserve. At 105, she has lived for more than double the age of an average Asian Elephant. Though loosing her vision to Cataract, she has been able to navigate using her trunk and support from her herd members

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just when you think animals are incapable of "civilized socialization", nature surprises us.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community River Phoenix passed away right before he was to film his role as the interviewer in Interview with the Vampire. The part was recast with Christian Slater, who donated his earnings to Earth Save and Earth Trust, two of Phoenix's favorite charities.

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Norway discovered oil in its country 40 years ago. Knowing the oil would eventually run out, they chose to invest it in a sovereign wealth fund. It is one of the most profitable funds in the world - valued at over $1.3 trillion - enough to self sustain the county for many years.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community While only 9.7% of Americans don't wear seatbelts, 47% of those who pass away in car crashes were not wearing seatbelts.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community Thomas de Mahy, Marquis de Favras was a French aristocrat whose last words were "I see that you have made three spelling mistakes", upon reading his sentence warrant.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community Jimmy Carter is the longest-lived president, the longest-retired president, the first president to live forty years after their inauguration, and the first to reach the age of 95.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community in the original ending of the Inca-inspired animated film "The Emperor's New Groove", the titular Emperor demolishes a rainforest to create a theme park. Sting – who spent 20 years defending the rights of indigenous people – threatened to leave the project unless the ending was changed.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community TIL in WWII, Major Digby Tatham-Warter led a bayonet charge while wielding an umbrella and wearing a bowler hat. He later disabled a German armored car with his umbrella. When saving the chaplain from enemy fire, he said “Don’t worry about the bullets, I’ve got an umbrella”.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community A 59 yr. old woman's smartwatch correctly recognized a tachycardia, alerting her to seek help. She was diagnosed with Atrial Fibrillation and treated, reducing her chances of suffering a severe stroke. In 2017 the FDA approved the use of this technology to be used for medical purposes.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same thing happened for my mom! I bought her a watch as a gift and 6 months later she was having surgery (when other treatments didn't work).

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community Florida had brought in 2 Irula tribesmen from India to catch the invasive Burmese pythons. When 1000 hunters were able to manage catching just 106 snakes, the duo caught 27 snakes in just 4 weeks, including a 16 ft long female.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I suspect the original 1000 were of the 'gravy seal' variety. Their girth and emotional support m-16s kept getting in the way.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community The Smithsonian Museum has over 3 million 2D and 3D images that anybody can use for free for any commercial purpose.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

NASA also allows their images to be used for free unless it is of their logo, or a person (like an astronaut, engineer etc).

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community The city of Carmel, IN has the most roundabouts per city in the US, with a total of 138. Since regular intersections were replaced with roundabouts, the number of accidents here has reduced by 40%.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That even beats Milton Keynes in the UK which has 130 roundabouts. I got lost there for an hour once. I'd had my fill of roundabouts by the end.

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Robert T
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah, but do they have a Magic Roundabout like the one in Milton Keynes?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here in NJ we have quite a few of them but the tourists can't stand them. I think they're great b/c you're not stuck waiting at lights which just congests all the roads especially along the shoreline. Keep those shoobies moving! LOL

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People hate roundabouts because when they were first made, they made them too small. That plus lack of familiarity (it does take a little bit of learning) makes people panic and miss their exist.

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Anna Repp
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I first encountered a roundabout when I went to New Zealand where they drive on the left side of the street. So not only a roundabout was not a familiar concept (I live the the US), but I also had to navigate it driving the wrong way. Took me a full ten minutes just to get out of the airport in my rental car, because I kept missing the exit in the same roundabout over and over again!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have almost hit so many people on those stupid things cause they don't care if there's oncoming traffic and just pull right out in front of me. Yield means to look for oncoming traffic, and if there is, you stop!

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Rissie
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*Actual functioning roundabouts, as most in the us are just smushed in between existing infrastructure. Without clear signage. Taking away any predictability in the process.

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Katia Wolfe
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It wasn't until I worked for a transportation engineering company that I discovered how genius roundabouts are for traffic! I don't know why they get so much of a bad rap, who doesn't like NOT having to stop?

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Vicky Zar
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If only everyone (tourists) knew how to navigate them. It's so easy and less dangerous.

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Vita Andolini
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There IS a roundabout where i live. At least we have two accidents per week. People dont understand how It works and also, they are asholes

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I first encountered them on a visit to the UK and was sold on the idea.

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CincyReds
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think they are cool, but sometimes scare me, because the people that are supposed to yield, never yield

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Casey White
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They're adding quite a few in my area and people act like it's the worst thing that can happen.

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JJM
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Having had to navigate roundabouts in London for many years - they make me very nervous if I have to detour left or right. Have ended up going around the roundabout 3 or 4 times!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The only thing that surprises me is when watching drivers on roads on video, they managed to not be able to navigate around the other side and end up in the same lane they started from when they get to the other side.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just googled about France (roundabouts' country) and Nantes got the most: 1100 roundabouts 😂

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backatya
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I couldn't tell. I see idiots not knowing how to use them

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Lisa Chambers
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

With the way people drive around Dupont circle, I wouldn't have thought that roundabouts were the better way to go about driving.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They may work when people actually do as they are supposed to and not just blowing through it while others have to wait for a line of people or try to speed in front of them hoping not to get clipped.... Talking about YOU Colorado peeps. Shame. That red yield sign means something.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

After encountering my first one on what used to be a regular route I had not driven on in a long time I was so scared as it was a complete surprise and I had no idea what to do. I still don't. I go out of my way to avoid the thing. It may be a wonderful idea for traffic, as this was an exceedingly busy intersection. With a lot of semi's. It's about the possible insuing argument with one of those that I didn't want to lose.

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KellyO
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

you mean after they figured out how to use them? they're putting them in here and people are losing their minds. they're all over Ireland and they...are...awesome....hardly any stopping.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

France is roundabouts world champion, they are everywhere. Half of the world's roundabouts are in France. And more and more every year. A nightmare for roundabouts haters.

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Heather Menard
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They haven't counted the ones in fort Collins CO because I drive thru ten just to get to work

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BasedWang
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Id be one of the ones in an accident. Idk why but I usually panic at roundabouts

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John Juan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

First encountered these on a trip to New England back in the 1990's. I felt like Clark Griswold. I suspect the reason the accident rate dropped is that most of the cars are stuck going around and around the roundabouts, trying to exit instead of actually traveling anywhere.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually, it reduces the damage potentially done to a vehicle and at a relatively slower speed because any accidents where contact is made is significantly less severe because both cars are traveling in the same (relative) direction as compared to being perpendicular and having an accident at a much higher rate of speed.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes! And because of the traffic accident reduction in Carmel surrounding cities are adopting the use of roundabouts as well. More and more we are seeing them in major cities such as Indianapolis.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live near there, once you figure them out they’re fine but they freak people out for some reason

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i spent my holidays one time in scotland and was enoyed about the amount of roundabouts there, especially. because they work another way than i am used to in my country. The most annoying thing was the navigation systems who was announcing each roundabout 3 times and sometimes was telling me to leave the 2. exit on the next roundabout while still driving in the first roundabout. That was confusing as hell some times.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't believe it for a minute. Roundabouts are the devil.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community The satanic temple offers academic scholarships to elementary through college students.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

From what I remembered what I learned in high school that Satanism has many different sects like Christianity. Only one of those were like what you see in the movies, the rest were a peaceful and loving religion.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community When the USS West Virginia battleship was finally salvaged 6 months after the attack on Pearl Harbour, a calendar was found in an air tight room where 3 trapped sailors had marked off 16 days until they passed away.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community For the film Stargate, Kurt Russell was paid twice his going rate because he was the only actor at the time to have "zero unlikability" in a global poll.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community In 1930, Chandra, an Indian student showed mathematically that massive stars explode into a supernova and then collapse down into neutron stars, or black holes. Before that Scientists assumed that all stars collapsed into white dwarfs. Chandra's theory was ridiculed as 'absurd'

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community In 1996, a Hong Kong ganster "Big spender" kidnapped the son of the richest man in Asia and demanded a ransom of $160 million for his return. After receiving the money, the gangster later phoned up and asked for advice on how to invest the money.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean, at least he wanted to make good financial decisions. Lol

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community In 1966, Bill Cosby tried to get 16 year old folk singer Janis Ian blacklisted from tv because he thought she was a lesbian and therefore unsuited for family entertainment.

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The Seiryu Miharashi station in Japan is a train station with no entrances or exits, no roads or paths to connect it, all it serves is a platform for the train passengers to step out and admire the valley

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community In 1927, during the worst flood in the history of the Mississippi River Valley, Herbert Hoover and the Red Cross set up "concentration camps" comprised of African Americans forced to work at gunpoint on the levee, and created a media campaign to cover it up.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

From the Yale PDF many people have linked to: "Black refugees were forced to perform the heavy labor that supported the camps and were barred from escaping by National Guard members, who oversaw their work with guns at the ready. Whereas white refugees were placed in indoor facilities, black refugees were detained in outdoor camps on the levee and systematically denied adequate food and shelter, with little promise of their homes ever being rebuilt."

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community In east Africa, movies are often watched with a "VJ" or "video joker" who provides live narration over the movie for translation, contextualization or comedy purposes.

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Introduction of iodized salt in 1920s increased national IQ average by 3.5 points in a decade and in certain states which had high levels of iodine deficiency previously, saw avg IQ increase as much as 15 points within the first decade.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community Masks on airplanes generate oxygen by triggering a chemical reaction. If pressure in the cabin is disturbed and masks drop, tugging the mask causes a firing pin to ignite a small explosion in an ‘O2 candle’ where Sodium Chlorate and Potassium Percholorate combine to make Oxygen gas.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those little firing pins in oxygen generators incorrectly marked as expired led to an explosion and deadly fire on a plane in the mid 90's. When the NTSB tried to recreate it at a NASA test facility it burned so hot it *nearly melted the measuring equipment*. (Look up ValuJet Flight 592 for the crash details).

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That there were only 66 years between the first ever powered flight and the moon landing. The Wright Brothers successfully flew a plane for the first time in 1903; in 1969 Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon.

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denzoren
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To think of how far we've advanced over the last 100 years is absolutely mind boggling. I only wished we could have treated our planet and it's inhabitants better.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community In 1995 a policy known as “the Wall" was created. It discouraged info sharing between the CIA and FBI, playing a critical role in the inability to stop 9/11. It got so bad agents played a CD with Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" into the phone as they were told their access was denied.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

RIP John O’Neill -1995, O'Neill became the first agent to recognize Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network as the single greatest terrorist threat to America. He campaigned relentlessly for increased cooperation between the CIA, the FBI, and U.S. and foreign governments, and made decisions that would change the face of counterterrorism. O'Neill won the respect of many powerful figures around the world and earned a legendary reputation as a bon vivant, an innovative leader, and a bridge builder of important alliances. But O'Neill's confident, charming public persona belied several professional disappointments and the growing strain of secretly maintaining a complex web of romantic relationships. When the FBI and the U.S. government continued to disregard his calls to connect the terror trail to bin Laden and his associates, O'Neill became even more disillusioned and ultimately resigned his post at the FBI. Just days later, John O'Neill perished helping others to safety on September 11

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community A British man was surprised at being urgently contacted by the NHS about his health, when they calculated his BMI as being 28,000. They'd written his 6'2" height as being 6.2cm tall

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This wasn't too long ago, he was invited for the covid vaccine when they first started the roll out. He didn't understand how he qualified so soon, when only those high risk or above a certain age were being invited, until they realised the mistake with his BMI.

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The same enzyme that makes apples and potatoes turn brown is also responsible for tanning in humans.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community Arthur Tudor, the older brother of Henry VIII, exchanged letters with his fiancée, Catherine of Aragon, in Latin. When they met in person they were unable to communicate however, as they had mastered different pronunciations of the language.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community Bronze medal Olympian, UFC champion and WWE wrestler Ronda Rousey used to be a moderator on a Pokemon forum, in her bio it said "I also spend a lot of time doing judo... right now I'm ranked #1 under 20, if you don't believe me look it up"

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community There was an infamous game of roulette played in Monte-Carlo on August 18, 1913, where the ball fell on black 26 times in a row. Gamblers lost millions expecting it to land on red along the way, making "the gambler's fallacy" famous.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community In 2018, a woman accidentally paid a Swiss cafe $7709 for coffee because she entered her PIN number as the dollar amount. When she called to get the money back, nobody answered because the cafe had filed for bankruptcy.

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Robert T
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This needs more explanation. They filed for bankruptcy so they could take the money, or they had gone bankrupt between her visit and her call? Things must have been in a really bad way for the former! And surely the bank would refund this?

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There is a breed of horse called the Yakutian that is native to Siberia. Bulkier than other horse breeds, it has a extremely long hair for its coat and can withstand temperatures as low a -70C (-94F)

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community The Tour de France has a team that drives each days route and turns genitals graffitied on the road into owls and butterflies.

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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community Thomas Linley was called "The English Mozart". Mozart called him "a true genius" and said "he would have been one of the greatest", but he drowned in a lake at age 22 and most of compositions were lost or burned in a fire.

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denzoren
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh no. These stories are always so tragic. Maybe we weren't ready or deserved his brilliance.

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