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TIL that there is recorded evidence of a ‘clapping noise’ produced by the northern lights, proving folktales of the phenomenon true.

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xVD8b TIL that 1000s containers are lost at sea annually due to falling overboard from underway vessels
NXMnb TIL The internal GPS of a specialized tracking mount for solar astronomy takes two minutes for its sun-sensor to detect the sun. It can also model the sun's position if it goes behind a cloud
nWr69 TIL Stanford engineers made a folding origami microscope that costs less than $1 to make. 50,000 microscopes were shipped to 130 countries in 2014 to see what people will do with it
neLWW TIL that Pabst Blue Ribbon makes "whiskey" that is aged for 5 seconds to make it fit the legal definition of whiskey.
AMod TIL: Ecosia is a search engine that uses the same results as Google, only that 80% of it’s revenue goes to a tree farming company in Brazil. Every search you do plants about one tree.