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TIL: If you search Google maps for Yucca Flat Airport and zoom out, you can see dozens of nuclear bomb craters from underground testing

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Zpo4Q TIL that Louisa May Alcott, the author of "Little Women", was a writer of psychological thrillers and a pioneer of detective and mummy stories.
ZpRmY TIL Japan still has little white mailboxes known as "shiroposuto" for people to deposit their porn when they're done with it. The first shiroposuto was set up in 1963 to provide a discreet way to dispose of "obscene" publications
7JYr TIL during an interview about the casting of Jean-Luc Picard, Gene Roddenberry was asked by a reporter, “Surely they would have cured baldness by the 24th century?” Roddenberry answered, “In the 24th century, they wouldn’t care.”
OG4La TIL that in ancient Rome, they used a punishment called "Poena cullei" for patricide. The condemned person was sewn into a sack with live animals such as dogs, snakes, monkeys, and chickens, then thrown into water.
Mepna TIL that due to prevalence of dubbed western programs in post-soviet Ukraine, a nationally produced comedy sketch show was recorded in English/German and then dubbed to Russian