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TIL Muon Tomography used to find a new chamber in the Gaza Pyramid was also used by Toshiba and the US Los Alamos Nat. Lab. to assess the situation inside the damaged reactors at Fukushima Daiichi

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5YMOP TIL of Frank Portusach, who, when American forces captured Guam from Spain during the Spanish American War, was appointed governor of Guam with the only qualification being he was an American Citizen
9vvD TIL The guy who invented Nutella also invented Kinder Surprise, Ferrero Rocher and Tic Tacs. What a genius.
Ka9J TIL The Pentagon is 6.5M square ft (2X the Empire State Building) and is occupied by 23,000 people, making it the biggest office building in the world. Also, it was designed so that no point in the building is more than a 10 minutes walk from another point. Construction took just 16 months.
4kLBJ TIL the way NYC has bodegas, Australia has milk bars. Modeled initially on American soda fountains, they’ve been on the decline since the 70s due to competition from supermarkets
W7VM4 TIL there are ancient rock formations that show evidence of early life called Stromatolites. They are formed by mats of microbial life that collect sediment in layers. They have been dated back to 3.45 BYA, making those microbes some of the earliest life on Earth.