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TIL that one man has painted nearly all the ski maps in the US

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VBOW0 Today I Learned who first spilled the tea. In 2737 BC it was Legendary Chinese Emperor Shennong when a few leaves from a nearby tree floated into his bowl of boiled water, changing the color and flavor. He made history, but would never know the future semantic shift of gossiping. https://www.tea.co.
W7YXY TIL that the doctor who helped deliver Dolly Parton was paid, by her father, with a bag of cornmeal
x6Ep0 TIL that the .com TLD was originally operared by the US Department of Defense, and still falls under US Jurisdiction.
1LxW TIL that nuclear power plants are one of the safest ways to generate energy, producing 100 times less radiation than coal plants. And they’re 100% emission free.
p8AmO TIL the Earth may not be flat but the Solar System is. Aftering seeing a graphic of an asteroid's relative distance to Earth I thought, this must be misleading, as we are not on one plane in space. But we basically are, with margins in single digit degrees.