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10/08/2022

"Butt" was a medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a buttload of wine is about 475 liters or 126 gallons.

German World War 2 pilots in North Africa used to fix bottles of Coca-Cola to the underside of their wings so that the drink would cool at high altitude and be ready to drink after landing.

04/08/2022

The Higgs boson is nicknamed 'the God particle' not because of its fundamental role in the universe, but because of Leon Lederman, a theoretical physicist who wrote a book about it in 1993, called it the 'Goddamn particle', as it was so difficult to observe.

Some police stations in China use geese instead of guard dogs to keep watch at night. Geese are very territorial and have better vision than humans.

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One attempt to synthesize spider silk consisted of transferring the gene to goats. The goats’ milk then contained the spider silk protein.

Christopher Nolan says the scene he's most proud of out of his entire filmography is the opening plane scene in 'The Dark Knight Rises.'