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TIL Google hired a Camel to map a desert for Google StreetView

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Brr0y TIL Root beer is flavored with the sassafras tree, and that the same plant is the source of safrole(the precursor for MDMA ecstacy).
wnG1 TIL the USSR built a Skynet-like device in the 1980s that would launch a massive nuclear attack without any human intervention if it detected Moscow had been destroyed
XpJQ TIL that the New York Times Bestseller list is editorial content. The editors choose which books are “bestsellers.”
XQlD TIL: Almost all major American Grocery chains continue to profit from the use of Slavery in Thailand’s peeled shrimp industry.
OG0vR TIL: Divers searching for a sunken World War II-era aircraft, instead came across a 15 by 15-foot section of the Challenger Space Shuttle 37 years after it exploded off the Florida coast. After the explosion, the salvage effort had recovered 47% of the shuttle.