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TIL The FBI declassified documents stating after Nikola Tesla died, they recovered plans & diagrams for a “death ray”, and technology for wireless electrical energy transmission.

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D1mvJ TIL that there is enough DNA in the average person’s body to stretch from the Sun to Pluto and back — 17 times
MlXV TIL Archaeologists believe that 900 years ago, Native Americans in Southern Illinois built an entire village and filled it with sacrificial offerings with the sole intention of burning it to the ground as part of a religious ritual.
P1YYL TIL at least nine fatal crashes involving F-16 fighter jets and an A-10 attack jet were blamed on pilots having issues with urinating mid-flight
79rL TIL that the 2015 price of gasoline in Venezuela was 1/5th of $.01, or 482 gallons with just one dollar.
npVd TIL the Grim Reaper was most commonly depicted carrying a scythe as imagery to death was an extension of an agrarian society in which harvesting, done in the fall, represented the death of another year.