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TIL there is a project that found a way to remove captured CO₂ permanently by making sparkling water and make a rock in the deepness of the earth drink it

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N7X0Q TIL One of the landing gears to the planes that hit the twin towers on 9/11 wasn't discovered until 12 years later wedged between an Islamic community center, and another building.
NDvb TIL when Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, its ash cloud circled the planet and changed the global climate. One night in 1816, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley met and told ghost stories inspired by the dark, dismal atmosphere. That night gave birth to Frankenstein and the Byronic Dracula