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TIL that the Halifax Explosion was one of the reasons for the establishment of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.

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e0J0E TIL that the Milky Way got its name because the Greek goddess Hera pulled a breastfeeding Hercules off of her boob and milk sprayed across the galaxy.
mxb4Y TIL Planthoppers (Issus coleoptratus) has the only mechanical gears ever found in Nature. The first natural design that mechanically functions like our geared systems contrasting the gear-like structures previously found on other animals like the spiny turtle which were purely ornamental.
yQDye TIL The largest firework on record used a 62" shell, weighed 2797 pounds, was launched from a 26 ft metal pipe buried into Emerald Mountain in Colorado, and was launched with a starting velocity of at least 300mph.
a6Gb TIL if all the water on earth is bunched up into a ball, it’s radius will be less than 700 KM.
0dpQj TIL there is a monastery in Florida constructed from remaining blocks from a dismantled monastery that was built in Spain in 1133 AD.