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TIL The US Navy is reinstating celestial navigation due to computer navigation being vulnerable to cyber attacks.

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pvGp TIL a “moment” is a medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.
ppLp TIL of Michael Richards, who died in his art studio on 9/11, floor 92 WTC North, whose art focused on planes; including sculptures of airplanes piercing his own body.
9YlaM TIL Hawaii is the only US state to both never record a high temperature of 100 degrees F or more and the only state to never record a low temperature less than 0 degrees F
v1ag8 TIL: China creates so much synthetic diamonds that are identical to real diamonds that prices of diamonds are being driven down and De Beers has created a university to study how to identify "natural" and "man made" diamonds because no experts can tell the difference.
yy18 TIL that Nazi eugenics programs had their start in the United States, with research funded by wealthy industrial leaders. A 1912 Carnegie Institute report even recommended the use of gas chambers as a solution to the problem of cleansing society of the poor, non-white, and mentally ill.