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TIL Some space telescopes are inspired by the lobster’s eye design.

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WoAX TIL General Sherman used confederate POWs to clear landmines that were killing his troops
N7ROP TIL that 50 yrs ago today, the US conducted its largest underground nuclear test. A W71 warhead was detonated in a 7-ft-wide, 5,873-ft-deep shaft beneath Amchitka Island, Alaska. The yield was about 5 Megatons. The explosion raised the ground 25 ft, later collapsing into a 1-mile-wide, 60-ft crater.
BneD TIL Australia is the only country in the world to have significant net positive immigration with the US. That is, more people leave the US for Australia than vice versa.
Z8xaR TIL- Sarah Weddington, the attorney for Roe in Roe v. Wade was only 27, and remains the youngest person to argue a successful Supreme Court case.
KORrG TIL there was a period in French history where the country actually was represented by a plain white flag.