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TIL the Pentagon is making their own version of Reddit for the military

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wLAp8 TIL that, if extra-terrestrial life is found in our Solar System, it means the Great Filter (whatever keeps other life in the Cosmos from contacting us) is in Humanity's future, not its past. Basically, if we find life on Mars or Europa, we can be certain that our kind will never travel the stars.
VBOEZ TIL that, in 1972, several natural nuclear fission reactors were discovered in Oklo, Gabon. They worked around 1.8 to 1.7 billion years BP, continued for a few hundred thousand years, and produced around 100kW of thermal power
BrKwe TIL that, in 2016, the European Union ordered Apple to pay Ireland $14 billion in lost taxes
x6bAg TIL: Open Skies is an international treaty signed by 34 nations which allows member states to conduct unarmed surveillance flights over any part of each others territory.
mMKp TIL the average lifetime cost of raising a dog is $23,410