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TIL: Japan’s 2022 Fifa’s world cup bid included projecting 3D holograms of the games live onto fields across the world.

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mxXdY TIL that obesity is a rising problem for horses, just like for humans, partly due to a tendency for an owner with a horse of perfectly acceptable body condition to be criticized and accused of not feeding enough.
p0wA TIL a team of Material Scientists at the University of Texas Dallas have developed artificial muscle that is 100X stronger than organic muscle and is constructed out of ordinary fishing line.
XE8yP TIL of Leona Woods, the only woman physicist on the team which built the world's first nuclear reactor as part of the Manhattan Project. She became a mother during the Project but hid her pregnancy as not to miss work. Afterwards as a professor, she authored >200 papers in physics and astrophysics.
7r4yX TIL Beaufort's Dyke is a deep sea trench off the coast of Northern Ireland that the British have used to dump thousands of tonnes of munitions and nuclear waste. There are explosions happening down there that register on seismographs.
Egrdo TIL: MDMA (aka Ecstasy) was widely used for therapy prior to drug prohibition. MDMA assisted therapy was reported to treat depression, substance use disorders, relationship problems, premenstrual syndrome, autism, and many other psychiatric disorders