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Today I learned about the geodesic equation: a method used to find geodesic paths through space.

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nWAG TIL that, in Oakville Washington, it once rained gelatinous blobs that contained human white blood cells
mXLY TIL there is a clock being built inside of a mountain that is designed to tick for 10,000 years, and play a unique melody that never repeats itself.
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