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TIL About Gap Creationism, a Theory of the Bible Where a Large Period of Time Exists Between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, God Creating the Earth to the Creation of Light. This Is Where Some Theorists Believe Events Such as Dinosaurs and the Ice Age Exists in the Bible.

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yQBBM TIL about history's most expensive "hyphen" when a NASA programmer missed out a single hyphen whilst transcribing a mathematical formula for the guidance system which caused an entire NASA rocket launch to be aborted and the rocket destroyed.
X0MAE TIL of Somaliland, an entirely unrecognized sovereign nation in the de jure territory of Somalia. Since declaring independence in 1991, it has managed to carve out a free, democratic and relatively peaceful and prosperous country in a notoriously war-torn region.
Xr08 TIL there is a video game for kids with cancer where you fight cancer cells inside your body. The game “significantly improved treatment adherence and indicators of cancer-related self-efficacy and knowledge in adolescents and young adults who were undergoing cancer therapy.”
4kZyo TIL that the last major attempt at colonization by the British Empire began in 1938. The Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme was intended to start sustainable settlements on three Pacific atolls to increase British influence in the area. With coconuts as their only export, they were abandoned in 1963.
pV5e TIL that if a billiard ball and the earth were the same size, earth would be smoother than the ball