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TIL that scientists developed a plan to boost Egypt's hydroelectric capacity by using 200+ atom bombs to carve a canal between the Qattara Depression and the Mediterranean to create a vast inland sea. The proposal was rejected

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R57Kl TIL that money from The Beatle's record sales in the 60s helped fund the invention of the CAT scan.
4ko5R TIL in the 1992 World Series, the US Marine Corps carried the Canadian flag into the stadium upside down.
mxNbP TIL a 1996 survey found that 95% of all American preschoolers had watched Sesame Street by the time they were three years old.
Eg6mP TIL that the Chinese Old Summer Palace was so big that during the Second Opium War it took 4000 British and French soldiers 3 days to loot and destroy it without any resistance
XEW1E TIL about Cargo Cults, an indigenist belief system in which adherents perform rituals which they believe will cause a more technologically advanced society to deliver goods. These cults were first described in Melanesia in the wake of contact with allied military forces during the 2nd World War.