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Jw71
TIL Charles Darwin & Joseph Hooker started the world’s first terraforming project on Ascension Island in 1850. The project has turned an arid volcanic wasteland into a self sustaining and self reproducing ecosystem made completely of foreign plants from all over the world.
QMKE
TIL Scientists are working on a “GPS” that works in space. It uses x-ray’s emitted by pulsars to get a position anywhere, accurate to 5km. Its called XNAV.
r1yo
TIL In Britain, after the end of a TV show there’s a power surge demand of 3 Gigawatts in 5 minutes as 1.5m Kettles are put on - so much France sends 600Megawatts of power