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TIL Jackass Flats: The aptly named test site for the world's first and only nuclear-powered rocket engines.

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YpWXv TIL that Saturn could float in water.
69ALQ TIL about the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), the most environmentally friendly form of pest control. Disease carrying insects, including mosquitoes and tsetse flies, are sterilized with radiation and released to mate with wild females, rendering their eggs useless.
BrBWW TIL that Ashton Kutcher and Scarlett Johansson both have twins.
b6Ob4 TIL Ancient Romans pronounced "Caesar" the same as we pronounce the German word "Kaiser" in English.
gNxD TIL of the Asian brown cloud, a layer of air pollution that appears over South Asia and the Indian Ocean every year between January and March when there is no rain to wash pollutants from the air. Nearly two million people die each year, in India alone, from conditions related to the brown cloud.