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TIL There is a sunken ship near the coast of England with roughly 1.500 tons of unexploded unstable explosives, that could go off by it self.

by whatilearned June 30, 2022, 4:52 pm

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TIL For its 50th anniversary, Cup Noodle got rid of the plastic stickers on the bottom of the cup used to close the container and replaced it with a two tab lid. The change saves 33 tons of plastic waste per year.

by whatilearned June 25, 2022, 4:32 am

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TIL that microorganisms are conditioned to treat our wastewater, specifically Phosphate (PO4). we reduce oxygen levels in the water to almost suffocate the microbes. Then we give them tons of oxygen bubbles. after that we but them back into anaerobic conditions. the microbes now eat the O of the PO4

by whatilearned June 23, 2022, 10:57 am

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TIL the asteroid impact that caused the dinosaur extinction set 70% of the world’s forests on fire, caused tsunamis that rose to a height of 300ft (100m), and ejected 25 trillion metric tons of debris into the atmosphere that reduced sunlight by up to 90% for a decade.

by whatilearned June 13, 2022, 10:19 pm

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I used to drink tons of Diet Coke

by CopyPastaArchive June 9, 2022, 11:56 am

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TIL that when filming the iconic final scene of Real Genius, over 140 tons of popcorn had to be popped since the film was made before CGI was invented.

by whatilearned June 1, 2022, 12:47 am

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TIL that if you hold the Windows Key and press the . key on a Windows computer, you can get a list of tons of emojis, kaomojis, and symbols you can use.

by whatilearned May 27, 2022, 5:53 am

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TIL the energy released by turning just one kilogram of hydrogen into helium is the same as burning 20,000 metric tons of coal. The sun is doing this constantly through nuclear fusion.

by whatilearned May 24, 2022, 5:07 pm

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TIL a significant part of the local economy of Kinmen County is making high quality chef’s knives from the over 1 million artillery shells fired on the island in the 1950s. Shells filled with propaganda leaflets instead of explosives landed whole, leaving tons of high quality steel lying around.

by whatilearned May 21, 2022, 1:35 pm

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I have tons of LGBTQ friends, so I asked them what LGBTQ meant.

by cringeyjokesman May 14, 2022, 4:58 pm

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The discovery of the largest Nazi treasure hoard of World War II in the abandoned mine near Merkers in Germany. Over 100 tons of Gold, at today’s prices, the gold bars alone would be worth over six billion USD.

by HistoryBuff May 5, 2022, 5:09 am

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TIL that the weight, in metric tons of carbon, for all animal livestock on Earth is 100 million tons (cows, pigs, chickens, etc.). This is more than 10X the weight of all wild mammals and birds at only 9 million tons (whales, wildebeest, sparrows, etc).

by whatilearned April 22, 2022, 4:01 am

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