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TIL The most expensive aircrash ever was caused when a B2 spirit was left outside in the rain. A sensor was damaged by water, causing a crash on takeoff at a cost of $1.4 billion.

by whatilearned January 27, 2022, 4:13 pm

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TIL that a woman in Maryland pushed her three year old son on a swing for 43 straight hours, causing him to eventually die from dehydration and hypothermia. She faced up to 45 years in prison, but the judge felt she was not a danger to herself or others, so she was immediately freed.

by whatilearned January 18, 2022, 5:35 am

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TIL that if grazing animals eat too many corn lilies, their offspring are likely to be born with one eye. This is because a chemical found in the corn lily plant interrupts brain development, causing the fetus to present with cyclopia.

by whatilearned January 16, 2022, 12:44 am

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TIL Nilgai, the largest antelope in Asia, were introduced to Texas and now have a problem causing feral population of over 40,000

by whatilearned January 14, 2022, 5:59 am

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TIL Cosmic rays can cause bit flipping in electronics on earth leading to errors. Earth is constantly bombarded by high energy protons and neutrons which occasionally hit single transistors causing them to change state from a 0 to a 1 or vice versa.

by whatilearned December 11, 2021, 2:27 am

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AITA for causing absolute chaos in the neighborhood and killing 5 people?

by CopyPastaArchive December 9, 2021, 6:24 pm

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TIL that after the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, his body underwent a botched embalming causing it to decompose inside his coffin. The stench was so bad that the guards around his body had to rotate every 10 to 15 minutes because of several instances of them fainting.

by whatilearned December 2, 2021, 12:47 pm

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Today I learned that the demand for mummies outstripped supply causing people to make fakes out of newer corpses in order to make a paint called Mummy Brown.

by whatilearned November 29, 2021, 6:35 am

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TIL about the tragic story of the The Flying Dutchman. A C-47 airplane, nicknamed The Flying Dutchman, was hit by a strong down draft of wind in New Guinea causing it to crash. The occupants who had survived carved daily entries on the door for those who would eventually find them.

by whatilearned November 25, 2021, 5:41 am

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TIL a 21 year old tried to commit suicide by injecting elemental mercury intravenously. The liquid metal traveld to the pulmonary capillaries where it stopped, causing a non-fatal embolism.

by whatilearned November 19, 2021, 8:13 pm

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TIL that there’s a term for an altitude where there pressure is so low that the boiling temperature for water is the same as normal human body temperature and exposure will cause all of your bodily fluids (minus your blood) to be boiled off, causing death. Armstrong’s Limit/Line. Roughly 60k-62k’.

by whatilearned November 2, 2021, 11:06 pm

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What is something that you know is causing your body harm, but you still do it?

by QuestionGuy November 1, 2021, 12:50 pm

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