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TIL this Solar Photovoltaic module was made from silicon in 1955 by Bell Labs scientists and is still functional today.

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Ep0X TIL there have only been three individual natural disasters thought to have killed more than a million people. All three were different times that China’s Yellow River has flooded.
p8xA4 TIL a German company developed a pane glass for windows that replicates the way birds see spiders' webs so they will avoid flying into them, thus greatly reducing the high avian death rate caused by collision with building windows
lvxB TIL a Buddhist monk left a note with instructions on how his body should be handled after death, once his body was exhumed in 2002 after 80 years it was in perfect condition.
RE5l TIL since 1967 there has always been a plane in the air above the US which has the ability to retarget and launch nuclear missiles without the crew in the underground missile silos being involved.
KO8kE TIL It was once extremely common to find Irishmen in high military command positions in the armies of continental European powers. Many Irish generals and officers would often encounter armies led by other Irishmen who they knew and once fought with against Britain