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TIL To solve the problem of communicating to humans 10,000 years from now about nuclear waste sites one solution proposed was to form an atomic priesthood like the catholic church to preserve information of locations and danger of nuclear waste using rituals and myths.

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g5Xb TIL That there are grapes that taste like cotton candy!
Bg87D TIL when the NEAR Shoemaker satellite landed on asteroid Eros in 2001, Gregory Nemitz sued NASA for parking on his property (in parking space #29) at a rate of 20¢/year
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d8o4r TIL by using a man in the middle, two brothers hacked the French optical telegraph system to gain advance information on the stock market. When they got caught two years later, they walked away as free men because in 1836 there were no laws against hacking