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TIL Chinese messenger WeChat had more mobile transactions over just Chinese New Year in 2016 than PayPal had during the entirety of 2015

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v1LDj TIL that the US is in eternal battle with a flesh eating fly called the Screw Worm. Basically a maggot that burrow into live flesh, head first. There's a worm screw border guard at Panama, having mostly irradicating them in North America. Last US case in 2016. Yes, they will lay their eggs in you.
yQ8je TIL that scientists predicted in 2022 there will be an Explosive Collision from Tow Merging Stars. It will cause a Bright Red Flash in Space witch will be visible from earth with naked eyes for many nights and days.
oOeR TIL that there was a Soviet Submarine that sank with 34 warheads aboard. Those warheads are no longer there.
Wk0E8 TIL George Lucas asked Toshiro Mifune of Kurosawa fame to be Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader, only to be turned down because he thought it would "cheapen the image of samurai".
l7517 TIL France detonated its 1st atomic bomb, the Blue Jerboa, on Feb. 13, 1960 in Saharan Algeria. This was the 1st of 17 nuclear weapons detonations that occurred in the area between 1960 & 1966. The Blue Jerboa was 3 times more powerful than the atomic bomb the US dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in 1945.