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TIL NASA’s Eagleworks lab is currently running a real warp drive experiment for proof of concept. The location of the facility is the same one that was built for the Apollo moon program

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mQ4o TIL In Delhi, if a tree falls sick, an ambulance is dispatched to treat them
V8JG TIL that after the civil war ended, the first General of the Confederate Army was active in the Reform Party, which spoke in favor of civil rights and voting for the recently freed slaves.
8D1b TIL in World War II, British soldiers were given a ration of only 3 sheets of toilet paper per day. American soldiers received 22.
4kV0J TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust
x687o TIL that there was a 22-year-old Indiana boy named Brock Meister who survived a cancerous brain tumor and a car accident-induced internal decapitation (when the spine and skull fully separate from each other). The same neurologist also treated him for both life-threatening conditions.