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TIL that deep-sea mining for valuable minerals like nickel, cobalt, and rare earth elements is being explored on the ocean floor, but the industry is controversial due to concerns that it could disrupt ecosystems.

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BOPk TIL Alaska has filed a bill every year to change Mount McKinley’s name to Denali and saw the move blocked every year by legislators in Ohio, McKinley’s home state.
R1bj TIL During the “secret war” waged by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1964 to 1973 against communist and nationalist forces in Laos, more bombs were dropped on this rural nation of poor farmers than all the explosives dropped on Germany and Japan in the Second World War.
Wk97Y TIL during WWII, American POWs in Japan had a 40% chance of dying compared to American POWs in Germany who had a 1% chance of dying.
Y7X8x TIL Espionage Act violations carry up to 10 years prison penalty per violation (per document)
Rbe1 TIL a Hungarian psychologist wrote a book on how to raise a genius. He proposed his ideas to a teacher. They married and raised three chess grandmasters, two of them became record-breakers and one even became the first female to beat the top ranked male (Gary Kasporov).