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TIL there is a nuclear waste repository under construction set to be completed in 2100 and then sealed shut intentionally for over 100,000 years. The crew has considered placing markers on the site with every major language to warn future generations not to drill into the bedrock.

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R55w6 TIL how trains turn, without a differential. The wheels should create massive friction under the heavy loads. It is solved by conical wheels.
pWLp TIL that prosecutors who hid evidence that would have cleared a man who was sentenced to death were not able to be punished according to the Supreme Court
ElR7 TIL there are fewer than 33,000 Venus flytraps living in the wild, and they’re all in North Carolina.
xr77 TIL the Cult Awareness Network listed Scientology as the #1 most dangerous cult. Over 50 Scientologists later filed civil suits against them, many using the same carbon copy claim via 1 law firm. After suing them into bankruptcy, the Church bought the name and started the New Cult Awareness Network.
k9BW TIL that Reagan and Gorbachev informally agreed that the US and USSR would assist each other in the event of an alien invasion