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TIL Jeff Bezos is building a 10,000-Year Clock in a mountain in Texas.

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0vw1 TIL that Steve Buscemi showed up at his old firehouse the day after the 9/11 tragedy in New York to volunteer, worked twelve hour shifts for a week digging through rubble looking for missing firefighters… anonymously.
4X4R6 Today I learned that each train car of coal loses up to 3% of its load, a literal ton of coal, as dust when it is traveling from the mine to the power plant.
Olma TIL: That there’s a blue planet that rains glass 63 light years away.
kv45 TIL of “Japan’s hardest test”, the Kendo 8th dan Judgement Test. Held twice each year, less than 1% ever pass. Out of ~200 million Kendo swordsmen in the country, less than 400 have achieved 8th dan.
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