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TIL that Project Stargate was a CIA plan to use psychic powers for spying

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YpLOd TIL the reason why the film industry is based in California because filmmakers were trying to get away from Thomas Edison, who owned all film production patents based in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Edison was known to have sued any film-based company in the East Coast operating out of his control.
wLav7 The world’s largest plant designed to suck carbon dioxide out of the air and turn it into rock has started running in Iceland
QN9l9 TIL In Aztec mythology, childbirth was regarded as a woman's struggle with the gods to ensure her child's survival. Mothers who survived were celebrated, while those who died were believed to become Cihuateteo, a vampire-like creature that stole other women's children.
kOwXd TIL that the Aral Sea has been nearly fully drained by human irrigation and that this has happened before. Over 600 years ago the Mongols drained the lake too an even lower level than today.
XbD6 TIL Time doesn’t actually (even perceivably) appear to slow down during life threatening situations - the brain simply makes more dense and detailed memories of the event which makes it seem in retrospect to have lasted longer.