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TIL: Hawaii is in Oceania not North America
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TIL that at midnight on Dec 30th, 1899, a ship positioned itself at the intersection of the date line and equator, such that the bow and stern occupied different seasons, hemispheres, days, years, and centuries. For the ship, Dec 31st never occurred.
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TIL that a Texas Billionaire built a disposal site for radioactive waste over one of the largest reservoirs of fresh water in the south-west of the United States.
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Today I learned that most indoor swimming pools in the US in the first half of the 20th century required males to swim naked.
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TIL a field of seagrass converts carbon dioxide to oxygen at over 8x the rate of a forest the same size.
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TIL A theoretical spacecraft was designed to travel 92% the speed of light, granting humans the ability to travel to different star systems within their lifetimes.