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TIL that the total size of the Google Earth database is over 20 Petabytes.

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MeBZA TIL Nasa hires a chief sniffer to smell everything that sends to space...
e0Dkg TIL of United States Foreign-Trade Zones, where cities like San Jose CA control their own foreign trade policy and are not subject to Federal tariffs.
e0pkk TIL of the Amritsar massacre in India. In April 1919, when Indians, the majority Sikh, gathered to protest in a walled garden against British Colonial rule, British troops opened fire on the peaceful protestors, killing anywhere from 379-1000 and injuring another 1,100.
wLrl7 TIL Nostradamus was a noted Plague Doctor. His advice was the removal of infected corpses, getting fresh air, drinking clean water, and drinking a juice preparation of rose hips.
rNLV4 TIL that in 2002, two planes crashed into each other above a German town due to erroneous air traffic instructions, killing all passengers and crew. Then in 2004, a man who'd lost his family in the accident went to the home of the responsible air traffic controller and stabbed him to death.