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TIL that Coca-Cola once helped NASA to design a nuclear bomb-powered rocket!

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LkLEr TIL "As a boy of five, John Brown witnessed a slave his own age being beaten with a fire shovel. He vowed to become a foe of slavery." As an abolitionist, he said "These men are all talk. What we need is action—action!" He was ultimately hanged as a traitor for acts which spurred the Civil War.
5YKaQ TIL Female Golden Eagles , are used by Mongolian shepherds to defend against wolves.
KO5L9 TIL Decibels are logarithmic, not linear. 30 dB, is 100 times louder than 10 dB, and 40 dB is 1,000 times louder than 10 dB
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