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TIL: Since 9/11, at least 39 individuals who were taken into the CIA’s secret prisons have not been seen since

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PY4Ag TIL about how medieval tax records were kept or why notched sticks were so important back then.
QJKDk TIL a Taiwan man, Ben Hsu, swallowed an AirPod while asleep. When Hsu awoke, he hit Apple's tracking & heard beeps from inside his body. Kaohsiung Hospital confirmed: the earbud was in his stomach, and then passed from his body naturally. After a wash/dry his AirPod worked as usual, battery at 41%.
9wDJQ TIL Japan has been the top robot exporter in the world, with its share being 30.6% in 2023
4XJwX TIL that the Sperm Whale is the loudest animal in the world. They are capable of producing sounds 230 decibels in volume, and can be heard by other Sperm Whales from 60 kilometers away.
ZppAB TIL Patton's solution to Hawaiian lava flows in the 40s-50s was to bomb them