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tilthat:

Today I Learned about Ray Holmes, an RAF pilot during the Battle of Britain who saved Buckingham Palace from destruction by ramming a German aircraft, nearly killing himself in the process, and ejecting, only to land in a garbage bin.

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artherra Uncategorized Leave a comment December 8, 2018 1 Minute

tilthat:

TIL that Gamers’ brains are better at lucid dreaming and beating nightmares

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artherra Uncategorized Leave a comment December 3, 2018 1 Minute

onion-souls:

fenrissama:

onion-souls:

tilthat:

TIL that with each degree of temperature rise, violence increases by up to 20%

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Fight crime by reducing Earth’s temperature to 0° Kelvin.

Time stops at zero Kelvin

Crime stops at zero Kelvin

artherra Uncategorized Leave a comment December 3, 2018 1 Minute

tilthat:

TIL the most isolated human being ever was Al Worden, command module pilot of Apollo 15, who in lunar orbit was at a maximum distance of 2,235 miles from his fellow astronauts on the surface. While on the other side of the Moon, no communication with Earth or his comrades was possible.

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artherra Uncategorized Leave a comment November 19, 2018 1 Minute

tilthat:

TIL Harvard scientists managed to store a GIF animation of a galloping horse in the DNA of bacteria

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artherra Uncategorized Leave a comment November 17, 2018 1 Minute

tilthat:

TIL the scientific adviser to the 2014 film Interstellar spent two weeks talking Christopher Nolan out of having a character travelling faster than the speed of light, as it defies the laws of physics

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artherra Uncategorized Leave a comment November 17, 2018 1 Minute

tilthat:

TIL a gravitational anomaly called The Great Attractor pulls Milky Way and millions of other galaxies towards itself at a breakneck 22 million kilometers (14 million miles) per hour.

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artherra Uncategorized Leave a comment November 17, 2018 1 Minute

tilthat:

TIL that the ‘Big Mac Index’ is an economic tool published annually by The Economist to measure the purchasing power parity between two currencies. It compares the cost of Big Macs world-wide to determine whether currencies are over-valued or under-valued.

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artherra Uncategorized Leave a comment November 17, 2018 1 Minute

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michaelwalsh:

tilthat:

TIL that in 1847, a doctor performed an amputation in 25 seconds, operating so quickly that he accidentally amputated his assistant’s fingers as well. Both later died of sepsis, and a spectator reportedly died of shock, resulting in the only known procedure with a 300% mortality rate.

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nice job idiot

Surgery Saga 1847 “Malpractice Ending” speedrun (0:00:25)

artherra Uncategorized Leave a comment November 11, 2018 1 Minute

tilthat:

TIL Method of Loci is a method of memory enhancement which uses visualizations with the use of spatial memory, familiar information about one’s environment, to quickly and efficiently recall information. This is the method Sherlock Holmes used to solve the cases assigned to him.

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