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TIL Implosive Joining creates a permanent, high-quality connection via an implosive that presses together cables.

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v14XK TIL that Avatar The Last Airbender’s episode, “Lake Laogai” was inspired by China’s “Laogai System” in the 1950s. The Communist Party detained those deemed disruptive to political stability to transform them to conform to socialist ideals through forced labor and political indoctrination.
7jgM TIL There are more Museums in America than Starbucks and McDonald’s combined.
GYGQ TIL NASA set out to disprove the claims of the “Mayan Apocolypse”, and did.
ZeLY TIL every resident of Alaska gets an annual “oil royalty check”–a payment representing their share of revenue from Alaskan oil. In 2008 the payout reached a high of $2,069, or $8,276 for a family of four.
4XZk6 TIL that modern scientific research is seen by scientists and historians as "Big Science", with scientific progress since WWII increasingly relying on large-scale projects with big budgets, big staff, big machines, and big laboratories, usually funded by national governments or groups of governments