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TIL citizens in Estonia are given an ID card that includes a public/private key pair allowing users to cryptographically sign digital documents

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5NbP TIL The USA has a law that allows citizens to occupy any unclaimed island in the world, as long as there is seabird or bat poop on it
R5rxQ TIL that even after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with Japanese leadership still in disagreement over surrendering, the Allies executed the largest and longest bombing campaign of the Pacific War, with 1014 aircraft used.
woZMY TIL Nike makes a carpet underlayment pad made from manufacturing scrap that sells exclusively at Home Depot.
7ByX TIL An inactive diamond mine in Russia (Mir Mine) is so deep, Helicopters can be sucked into it by downward airflow
o9Po TIL a year after Benjamin Franklin conducted his lightning experiment, a man named Georg Richmann attempted to conduct his own lightning experiment and was killed.