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TIL that a space venture backed by Google and Microsoft founders are planning to mine near-Earth asteroids to extract ice deposits, precious metals and minerals.

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ANa6x TIL that Fantasmagorie (French word for phantasmagoria) was the first animated cartoon film in history produced by French cartoonist Emile Cohl in 1908.
loagA TIL soaps have been made for millennia. Alongside making fire and cooking food, turning oils and fats into soap is one of the oldest and simplest chemical reactions known to humankind. It is believed that the first soaps were accidentally made by fat dripping into the ashes of cooking fires.
RbW4 TIL “goodbye” is actually a contraction for “God be with ye.”
epOW4 TIL Mushrooms are more closely related to animals than plants
epEDD Today I learned that the United Kingdom and the State of Oregon have close to the same land mass. But Oregon population has only has about 4.25 million to the UK’s 68 million.