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TIL Louisiana loses a football field of land every hour to the ocean

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x65yw TIL: Your car's VIN (vehicle identification number) shows its country of origin, engine size, model year, vehicle type, trim level and manufacturing factory. The first 3 digits/letters identify the country, positions 4 to 9 describe the vehicle, and 10-17 is the vehicle identifier section.
QJEQp TIL During a campaign to remove statues of Vladimir Lenin, Ukraine changed “Lenin Street” to “John Lennon Street”.
wYy8 TIL NASA seriously thinks it can build a warp drive soon, now that the physicists have worked out the math. Here’s hoping.
xVMZ0 TIL: The universe is getting bigger and everything is moving away from each other
k8pe TIL that in 2005 scientists planted a 2000 year old Judean Date Palm seed found in Harod the Great’s Palace. Its germination in 2006 revived the extinct species