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TIL the East-West Dichotomy is Cultural and not Geographic, which is why Siberia and Australia are Considered Western Despite Being in the East.

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nWevW TIL in the 1960s the US government dug a mile-deep hole in the ground and dropped a 40-kiloton atomic bomb in it, to release natural gas. It worked, but the gas was too radioactive to use, and the project was abandoned.
jRoa TIL If an atom were as big as the Solar System, a neutrino would as small as a golf ball.
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mxyXO TIL over 84,000 scrolls were found behind a wall in the Sakya Monastery in 2003. They were untouched for hundreds of years.
aRV0 TIL that the word “idiot” originally referred to an Athenian citizen who didn’t participate in their city-state’s democracy and vote