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TIL The first Aeronautical Engineer for Boeing was an MIT educated Chinese naval officer hired in 1916

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m1dwM TIL there was a 12-megaton explosion that happened over the Tunguska River in Russia on June 30th 1908. It was caused by a meteor air burst between 3 to 6 miles above Earth at about 60,000 mph. It flattened an estimated 80 million trees over 830 sq miles of forest.
B8ve TIL that Pixar Movie The Incredibles intro song was heavily inspired by the intro song of the Japanese anime “Cowboy Bebop” from 1998.
woodY TIL With flight director Gene Kranz, it took a $5 million campaign to restore the original Mission Control room at NASA Johnson Space Center in 2019, with thousands of backers from 25 countries. Flight control consoles were restored and wall displays were reactivated with Apollo-era projections
j6xBa TIL that In the 800 years since Genghis Khan’s death, no-one has found his tomb.
gMe6W TIL the only two countries on the planet that make it illegal to pass a stopped and loading/unloading school bus are US and Canada