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TIL that in 2015 a Hezbollah cell was caught stockpiling ammonium nitrate in London

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5Ybkk TIL: Sperm whales can produce a sounds as loud as 230db, which is about 6db louder than the tsar bomba.
D8jV TIL Since the Han Dynasty in 200 BC, the Chinese have drilled for natural gas which was transported in bamboo pipelines to be burned in stoves.
QNDxd TIL only 12 people have walked on the moon, all within 4 years of each other and not for 52 years
5YYKB TIL That Nevada Passed A Law Making It Illegal To Drive Slowly In The Fast Lane
0wldL TIL there is a course from MIT called the “Missing Semester" that goes through the Shell, Vim, Git, data wrangling, etc — all the stuff that CS students are just ‘supposed to know’ but aren’t usually formally taught in a classroom