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TIL That Japan burns a portion of its garbage and uses the resulting ash in land reclamation. As of 2012 Japan has created over 250 square kilometers (96 square miles) of new land using this method.

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l7pYG Today I learned that Canada was going to build Nuclear submarines in the eighties
07j5 TIL That through a series of experiments in the Polytechnic Institute of New York, a robotic fish ended up becoming the leader of a school of live fish.
LEkV TIL that in 2002 NASA bought parts for the space shuttle on ebay because intel wouldn’t make them anymore.
Y7a9A TIL that in 2020, the UK imported 46% of the food it consumed.
rRYew TIL of a coal mine fire that has been burning under Pennsylvania since the 1960s.