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TIL United Airlines Kicked Girl With Autism Off United Plane

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8eJQX TIL that the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake moved Japan’s main island of Honshu eastward by eight feet and dropped 400km of coastline by two feet.
e0mOg TIL Earth's only natural satellite has no other name and is simply called "the Moon" because people didn't know other moons existed until Galileo Galilei discovered four moons orbiting Jupiter in 1610.
D1jOY TIL there are 23 floating-year-round boat schools in Bangladesh due to constant flooding in the country. Starting in 2002, these schools ensure year-round education in a country where heavy monsoon rains can submerge 70% of the land mass under water.
A5ag TIL Camels have been used often in battles because their smell and weird looks scare horses
rRQR4 TIL Quantum computers can solve problems that are impossible or would take a traditional computer an impractical amount of time (a billion years) to solve by qubits which have a third state called “superposition”, in addition to 1 and 0 that allows them to represent a one or a zero at the same time.