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TIL in Southern Norway there’s the world’s largest underwater restaurant, with seating capacity for 100 guests, and it was also awarded one star in both the 2020/21 edition of the prestigious Michelin Guide

by whatilearned June 14, 2022, 8:15 pm

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TIL that not only is magnetic tape still used for data retention, it’s relatively low cost, low error rate, and high capacity makes it extremely attractive for cloud storage.

by whatilearned June 13, 2022, 8:14 pm

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TIL that the majority of studies estimate that the Earth’s capacity is at or beneath 8 billion people.

by whatilearned April 30, 2022, 6:17 pm

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TIL Most dogs do not know what their farts are,” Dr. Ochoa told The Dodo. “They do not have the mental capacity to process that they just farted.”

by whatilearned April 28, 2022, 12:35 am

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TIL about “Slack Fill” lawsuits, suits aimed at food companies for packing their food only a fraction of the each container’s capacity. Most of these are class-action suits and the majority of the U.S. suits are filed from Northern California. In fact lawyers call San Francisco the “Food Court”.

by whatilearned March 14, 2022, 7:03 am

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TIL: An Alaskan husky in the Iditarod will burn about 9,666 calories each day; a rate of caloric burn 3.5 times that of a human Tour de France cyclist. The aerobic capacity of a typical Iditarod dog is three times that of a human Olympic marathon runner.

by whatilearned February 9, 2022, 7:39 pm

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I think I’m losing the capacity to be horny or be interested in romance. I actually see this as a good thing. (From r/teenagers)

by CopyPastaArchive January 28, 2022, 6:14 pm

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TIL the Nobel Prize winner Fritz Haber Haber-Bosch process of artificially generating ammonium nitrate was not only responsible for the entirety of the Axis powers explosive ordinance capability in WW1, but also for our present day capacity to feed a multi-billion population

by whatilearned January 26, 2022, 6:48 am

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TIL Ukraine operates four nuclear power plants with 15 reactors. Its total installed nuclear power capacity ranks seventh in the world.

by whatilearned January 21, 2022, 11:14 am

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TIL adding salt to water actually RAISES the boiling temperature, but decreases its heat capacity (amount of heat needed to raise the temperature by 1*). Adding a teaspoon of salt to pasta will only speed up the time by a couple seconds, but add to the flavor.

by whatilearned December 10, 2021, 6:19 pm

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TIL there is a tradition of leaving coins on military veterans’ gravestones. Penny = the grave was visited. Nickel = visitor trained at boot camp with the deceased veteran. Dime = visitor served with the deceased in some capacity. Quarter = visitor was present when the veteran passed away.

by whatilearned October 22, 2021, 4:24 pm

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TIL hospitals throughout the NYC area were bracing for maximum capacity on 9/11, only to slowly realize there were very few survivors from the World Trade Center’s collapse.

by whatilearned September 12, 2021, 4:22 am

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