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TIL that there are 11 active nuclear powered aircraft carriers in the world. One of them is French and the other ten are American

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ZpvlQ TIL about Juicero, a company that made a $699 juicer requiring Wi-Fi, an app, and QR-coded produce packs that had to be scanned and verified before juicing. Journalists found that the packs were easily squeezeable by hand, yielding the same results as the juicer. The company shut down shortly after.
Ood7L TIL while filming a 170 foot waterfall in the movie Apocalypto, a cow was trying to cross upstream and went over the falls. It emerged at bottom, banging against the rocks, but after a local man swam in to calm the cow it then climbed up the bank and began eating grass as if nothing had happened.
D1aJJ TIL The first name recorded in writing is on a five thousand year old clay tablet found in what used to be Mesopotamia. It's a business receipt in which a man named Kushim signed for 29,086 measures of barley.
MYrm Today i learned, there is a river in china so polluted it has turned red.
XExOk TIL that Buffalo Wild Wings was founded by Jim Disbrow and Scott Lowery. Lowery's parents were both Disbrow's ice-skating coaches and guardians.