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TIL that there is an underground town in the Australian outback called Coober Pedy. Half of its population live below ground to escape the area's hellish temperatures.

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mxQBv TIL November 14, 1910 Eugene Ely made the first airplane takeoff from a warship in a Curtiss pusher airplane from the cruiser USS Birmingham at Hampton Roads, VA. Ely later completes the first landing and takeoff from a ship in 1911. His flights marked the beginning of carrier aviation.
kOdjm TIL about Peter Oakley, known as Geriatric1927 on youtube, he was the most subscribed youtube account in 2006, in his channel he talked about his life experiences, such as growing up in the UK during WW2 and experiencing the British inter-war school system, he passed away in 2014 at 86 years old
9n0M TIL there have been computers programmed in “ternary” instead of the conventional binary. One such computer, built by the Soviets in 1958, had distinct advantages over binary computers such as increased power efficiency, cheaper parts and easier implementation of certain operations.
wE7Y [TIL] Schwarzenegger’s over-hyped ‘Last Action Hero’ bought a $500,000 advertisement on the side of a rocket who’s launch into space was delayed for technical reasons until a month after the movie had flopped at the box office.
R7jXj TIL John F. Kennedy Donated His Congressional & Presidential Salaries to Charity