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nWvB TIL it may be possible to colonize the three farthest gas giants with floating cities in their atmospheres.
Gm7 TIL a strange object at the bottem of the sea emits an EMP
9YB9B TIL about Kit Musgrave, a Royal Navy officer who survived the torpedoing of three different British cruisers within one hour on one very bad day in 1914. He survived WW I. He re-enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1939 as Britain entered WW II. He again survived and lived another 50 years.
4kEkb TIL About the Edgewood Arsenal human experiment project conducted by the US Army chemical corps from 1948-1975 during which 7,000 soldiers were exposed to various nerve agents to test their results.
Wk5Nd TIL that by 2011, 10 tons of human excrement had been excavated from a cesspit beneath Herculaneum, one of the towns that was destroyed Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Due to how much time had passed since the eruption, the excrement had no unpleasant odor when it was discovered