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TIL about flood geology, the attempt to correlate real landscape features and the presence of coal or oil with the Biblical Great Flood

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N7V88 TIL NASA hires a chief sniffer to inspect the smell of every item before it enters space. The lack of ventilation means astronauts are stuck with the smells that are onboard with them.
4k1Wg TIL Wendy's (fastfood chain) released a diss album called We Beefin? The album art is an homage to Ready to Die by The Notorious B.I.G., and the title a reference to their 80's 'Where's the Beef?' marketing campaign.
xp9k TIL The Shiba Inu breed of dogs almost went extinct during World War II
PwpE TIL that cheating and creating cheats for online games is officially a crime in south korea
R7Vd1 TIL during the period between 1964 and 1973, US dropped 260 million bombs in Laos, a country smaller than Michigan. The number of bombs dropped there is larger than bombs dropped on Europe during the whole of World War II.