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TIL Japan Wants To Turn The Moon Into A Giant Power Plant

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XQAX TIL there was a briefly popular social movement in the early 1930s called the “Technocracy Movement.” Technocrats proposed replacing politicians and businessmen with scientists and engineers who had the expertise to manage the economy.
wLGnY TIL that when wooly mammoths went extinct, their territorial grassland was replaced with birch forests. This ushered in an age of forest fires so significant that it may have changed the global climate.
lov75 TIL that Bhutan is the only country in the world whose nature converts more CO2 than the land itself produces.
oWyL TIL there’s a a fake bomb detector produced in the UK that has been sold to 20 countries in the Middle East and Far East, including Iraq and Afghanistan, for as much as $60,000 per unit. The fake bomb detector is still in use by police and army in those countries.
Zp9jG TIL a judge in Ohio once gave a prostitute a $1 Billion bond, one of the largest bonds ever in America.