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TIL GDP was invented just 86 years ago.

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M715a TIL that despite its cultural presence as the doomsday scenario, current models and estimates believe that a nuclear winter is not a realistic outcome following a nuclear war. One analysis said so many successive things would need to go wrong it was akin to a coin landing on heads 40 times straight
KlEw TIL the human body can survive for around a half a minute, completely exposed in space, without permanent injury
gMxR4 TIL thousands of Volkswagen diesel cars are parked in limbo in the California desert. VW spent $7.4 billion buying back 335,000 cars due to Diesel-gate and parked them in 37 remote storage facilities around the U.S.
9wBbB TIL that Sao Paulo, Brazil, is the only city in the world with its own air traffic control just for helicopter aircraft in a urban setting, with 13 dedicated helicopter air traffic corridors
WvnX TIL that in the original draft of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson had wrote,“We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable.” It was Benjamin Franklin who changed “sacred” to “self-evident” to champion rationality as opposed to religious providence