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TIL a man bulldozed his own $350,000 home to make banks think twice about foreclosure

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9YG0D TIL Amazon physically ships 100 petabytes of data at a time via shipping containers on semi-trucks to AWS datacenters for companies migrating to the cloud
neWAb TIL that Retta, who played Donna on Parks and Rec, has an aunt who is currently the President of Liberia
9lr7 TIL NASA Managers claimed that there was a 1 in 100,000 chance of a catastrophic failure aboard Challenger, but Richard Feynman discovered that NASA’s Engineers estimated the chance of a catastrophe at closer to 1 in 200.
XQeQ TIL a homing pigeon called Cher Ami that saved the lives of 194 soldiers during WW1 by transporting a message. The pigeon was shot through the chest, blinded in one eye and had its leg hanging by a tendon upon arriving with the message.
awwM9 TIL that one of the side effects of Ventolin (Salbuamol), used to treat Ashma and other breathing problems, is shaking. (Mainly when used in large doses)