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Today I learned that U.S. Government currently stores 1.4 billion lbs of cheese in caves hundreds of feet below Missouri

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OGaW1 TIL in a 1931 essay about on the future of science, Winston Churchill advocated for lab grown meat, predicted long distance communication through an internet-like system, and theorised that we'd be able to artificially cultivate humans based on our needs, but the moral debate would prevent this
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