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TIL, an explorer named 7 mountains after his wife’s nipple

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W7pr9 TIL about Josiah Harlan, an American traveler who raised an army in Afghanistan 1830s with the intent of becoming a king. He led his followers on various campaigns against slaveholding princes and after returning to the US attempted to be appointed a general in the Civil War against the Confederacy.
N7wRM TIL that on the night of September 10th, 2001, an artist by the name Monika Bravo filmed 7 hours of footage of a thunderstorm from the 91st floor of the WTC North Tower. She took the raw footage home with her that night. The next morning, both towers collapsed. The video she edited is found here:
MeoOK TIL "The World Is Not Enough" is prototype steam-powered spacecraft capable of creating its own fuel, which means it will be able to hop between asteroids and explore our solar system indefinitely.
Y7PVd TIL About Medals4Mettle, which re-ribbons your old medals and awards them to kids fighting diseases like cancer.
woyNM TIL that the film, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, was the first feature film to be entirely color corrected by digital means.