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TIL about an 1100 acre artificial cave that acts as a storage facility.

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pYEDG TIL: That only 10% of the water use in California is used by Californian residents with the rest being used by Farming and other Big Bussines
4XKXg TIL that film director Akira Kurosawa hired expert archers to shoot real arrows at Toshiro Mifune while he dodged them in choreographed movements. Mifune’s visible terror is quite real.
lxP5 TIL A former Israeli nuclear technician revealed details of Israel’s nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. He was subsequently lured to Italy by a Mossad agent, where he was drugged and abducted by Israeli intelligence agents.
QJbk9 TIL a Neural Network (AI) for converting satellite images to street maps learned to "cheat" by subtly encoding the original image in the output.
4jJN TIL that the lamp in an IMAX projector is so bright that if it were on the moon we could see it from earth with the naked eye.