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TIL the day before 9/11, current secretary of defense announced that the pentagon could not account for $2.3 trillion dollars

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KYNW6 TIL The only known naturally occuring nuclear fission reactor was discovered in Oklo, Gabon and is thought to have been active 1.7 billion years ago. This discovery in 1972 was made after chemists noticed a significant reduction in fissionable U-235 within the ore coming from the Gabonese mine.
6EpeY TIL about a town named Hell, Michigan. Amongst other things it has an all-hearse auto show called Hellfest.
PYV4n TIL the French government got duped out of 150 million by an Italian man with a photocopier
mjZE TIL There is a fire in a Kyoto temple that has been perpetually burning for over 1200 years
yVVBl TIL there is a activity called parahawking that combines paragliding with falconry in which Birds of prey are trained to fly with paragliders, guiding them to thermals. Parahawking was developed by British falconer Scott Mason in 2001