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TIL that Japan is working on wooden satellites that can cleanly burn up without leaving debris when they re-enter the atmosphere.

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ANlZa TIL about the Ghost Blimp. In 1942, a crew of two men left San Francisco in a Navy blimp to conduct an antisubmarine patrol. Five hours later, the empty blimp drifted back ashore and crashed into a residential neighborhood. No trace of the crew was ever found.
Q4na TIL that the egg industry puts male and female chicks on a conveyor belt and after picking out the males, throws them into a grinding machine alive.
ZNgo TIL Sudan had approximately 255 pyramids, twice the amount in ancient Egypt.
pWWe TIL that in 1931, after Texas Rangers barricaded a bridge spanning the TX-OK border, Oklahoma Gov. “Alfalfa Bill” Murray appeared at the site armed with a revolver, backed by the Okla. National Guard, to reopen the bridge. The bloodless “Red River Bridge War” even got the attention of Adolf Hitler.
78ebp TIL that when Harold Urey was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of deuterium ("heavy hydrogen"), a component of "heavy water", he declined to attend the award ceremony in Stockholm so as to be present at the birth of his daughter.