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OOYY TIL That the man responsible for leaded petrol, Tomas Midgley Jr, “had more impact on the environment than any other single organism in Earth’s history”
5Yngk TIL of an island called "Inaccessible Island" named for the difficulty in landing on the island and penetrating its interior because of the rough terrain, located in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean.
rRgbd TIL Nik Wallenda was the first person in over a century to cross the Niagara falls on a tightrope, which required two years of work to get a special dispensation, costed over a million dolars, and had to carry with him his passport to present it when he arrived at the Canadian side.
694YY TIL: In 1962, a bear caused a false alarm at a US air base and almost caused nuclear war
KOaoE TIL of a Russian analog computer built in 1936 that ran by a careful manipulation of water through a room full of interconnected pipes and pumps