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TIL that Boeing's spacecraft are as good as their planes

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9wpym TIL The oil doesn't exist underground in caverns that would otherwise be empty if it wasn't for the oil. Instead of thinking of large empty pockets, think of a wet sponge, where the sponge is rock and it's "wet" with oil.
VBrLk TIL Late Empire of China banned Mining because of the traditional cosmological beliefs which regarded the land as a sacred legacy. This ban was lifted in 19th century in order to oppose European and American colonial imperialism and invasion
NjQJ TIL the Yale student Jerelyn Luther that yelled “who the f— hired you?” was actually on the search committee involved in placing Nicholas Christakis as master of Silliman College
GYR54 TIL that a pestilence very likely killed the Aztecs: within five years, 15 million people – 80% of the population – were wiped out in an epidemic named ‘cocoliztli’, meaning just pestilence
9YGW7 TIL that John Carpenter is a fan of video games like Fallout, Borderlands, Horizon: Zero Dawn and Assassin's Creed