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TIL a brazilian old lady had her heart surgery done with super glue. She went on to live for 13 more years. Her death wasn’t related to the glue.

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9Y0lB TIL engineers plan to build a space elevator on the Moon tethered to a counterweight floating in a “Lagrange Point”, a pocket of gravitational equilibrium in our Earth-Moon system. We will sling rockets into space using centrifugal force at the top of the elevator.
WknMY TIL Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (AD 973-1057) was a blind, vegan, antinatalist, rationalist poet and philosopher who criticized Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism and advocated for social justice while living an ascetic and secluded lifestyle.
0dX5A TIL the first Pizza was probably served without Tomato/Tomato Sauce - it was not until the Spanish brought fresh tomatoes from the Americas that Modern Pizzas (with the familiar toppings) were invented.
5jnr TIL Richard Nixon possessed 3,700 hours of taped conversations while he was in the White House. Very few people have listened to more than a few hours of them. The tapes “go a long way toward showing Nixon’s underappreciated geopolitical genius and how he became the victim of his own emotionalism.”
pYRnG TIL In 2001, an Australian hacker using a laptop and a radio transmitter took control of a local sewage system in Queensland and sent municipal sewage into parks, rivers and public lands. He did this out of revenge against the department that had opposed his hiring request.