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TIL: Luxury designer, Jonathan Schwinge designed a Tetrahedron Superyacht which puts the yacht above the water to avoid turbulence. However, no one has funded the project yet.

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j6P8Q TIL there is bacteria that grows in the wet soil of Australia’s Northern Territory that in one case infected someone but lay dormant for 62 years before activating! Known as ‘Darwin’s Disease” it enters the body through cuts or inhalation and is fatal.
6EjW TIL there is a Brazilian island forbidden to the public, densely populated (1 per square meter) with one of the deadliest snake species, the golden lancehead.
A8Rn TIL that up until the mid-1980’s, female flight attendants in the US were required to be single (either unmarried or widowed) and were fired if they decided to get married.
OKWY TIL that in 2008, Christopher Hitchens, then a supporter of waterboarding as a form of interrogation, was waterboarded, and quickly changed his point of view
GM4G TIL that, in 1838, Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs issued Missouri Executive Order 44, ordering all Mormons to leave the state or be killed.