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TIL: USAF Project Thor (aka “Rods from God”) consisted of dropping telephone pole sized tungsten rods from space. This would provide global strike faster than an ICBM, be nearly impossible to defend against, and would hit the earth at Mach 10 causing the devastation of a tactical nuclear warhead.

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69vGQ TIL biologists may have discovered the world's largest rat species, which was found in the crater of a volcano in Papua New Guinea
b9r5Z TIL NASA is building an electric air plane prototype that will cut operating cost in half, and drop fuel cost from $200 per hr to $35 per hour.
ARwd TIL not a single cactus grows in the Sahara, as cacti are native only to the Americas.
75DM TIL of the Rotherham child sex ring scandal wherein at least 1,400 children, mostly white girls aged 11–15, had been sexually abused between 1997-2013 by predominantly Muslim men. A scandal known to the local government, but never acted upon for fear of allegations of racism
vbPD TIL Philip Morris ran an ad acknowledging “smokers’ cough” in 1943. They claimed it was caused by smoking brands other than Philip Morris.