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TIL that the 1947 ammonium nitrate explosion in Texas City, TX is considered one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions.

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QwXE TIL that India’s Mars mission cost less than the movie “Gravity.”
BrrGe TIL flush toilets, urban brick and mortar sewers, paved and graded streets and other aspects of hydraulic/civil engineering were present in the Indus Valley thousands of years before they appeared in the west.
WkQEL TIL November 2000 was the last date that every alive human was on earth. This was the date that the International Space Station was launched, and it's been inhabited ever since
VM9YD TIL that the inventor of Velcro took 20 years to take his idea from concept to production and even then the apparel industry wasn't sold on it. It wasn't until NASA came along asking about it for use in space that the fashion industry then went wild due to it now being space aged.
MeYlA TIL that Yanjaa Wintersoul, a26 year old polyglot, memorised the entire 2018 IKEA catalogue in a week. She stumbled across memorization techniques when trying to graduate her Bachelors degree program half the time and almost couldn't graduate high school as she had trouble memorising her Sciences.