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TIL the real reason that Coal Mining Jobs will never bounce back - this machine excavates 8.5 million cubic feet per day, using a crew of only 5 men per 8-hour shift.

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mxPBP TIL In 2017, Canadian scientists recreated an extinct horse pox virus to demonstrate that the smallpox virus can be recreated in a small lab at a cost of about $100,000, by a team of scientists without specialist knowledge.
loxKG TIL that the USA has been under a State of Emergency since 9/11, with it being renewed every year
4n9w TIL The Northern lights make an audible sound in the atmosphere
BrZOD TIL that during WW1, 'fucking’ and ‘bloody’ were used as palliatives, so that the order to ‘get your fucking rifles’ was recognised as considerably less urgent than the order to ‘get your rifles’.