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TIL that by 2050, the Northwest Passage—once an impossible Arctic route—will become the most valuable shipping lane on Earth, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific through Canada and Greenland.

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D17Vv TIL that the coin-operated vending machine was invented about 2,000 years ago by Hero of Alexandria, an engineer and mathematician in first-century Roman Egypt. Users inserted a coin, which fell onto a pan that was attached to a lever that opened a valve and dispensed holy water.
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