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TIL A South Pacific Tribe worship and believe airplanes are there Messiah after receiving supplies from airplanes during WW2

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GOdj TIL that there’s a type of neutron star called a magnetar which has a magnetic field that’s so powerful that being within 1,000 miles of one would warp all the atoms in your body and from a distance of 100,000 miles away it would be able to wipe out the data of every credit card on the planet.
MlYB TIL Kindergartners in Siberia run outside in their underwears and dump freezing water over themselves to strengthen their immune systems.
d6j8 TIL that Irene Triplett, an 84-year-old woman in North Carolina, still collects a monthly Civil War pension of $73.13 from the Department of Veterans Affairs. She is the last child of any Civil War veteran still on the VA benefits rolls.
rjkw TIL The most sophisticated bomb ever encountered by the FBI destroyed Harvey’s Wagon Wheel casino in Lake Tahoe in 1980. The device included 28 toggle switches , a float switch, tilt sensor, sensors and spring switches casing screws and joints, and a few surprises.
nepQW TIL Loki was actively pansexual and genderfluid in mythology Loki | Mythology, Powers, & Facts.