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TIL Warsaw radio mast was the tallest structure in the world until its collapse due to worker error

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yVWjw TIL about Project Plowshare, a US program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes. Proposed uses included widening the Panama Canal, excavate a roadcut in the Mojave Desert for the construction of I-40, and create an artificial harbor in Alaska
pYrkO TIL about parthenogenesis: that certain species can reproduce without contribution from a male
kJPKd TIL about William J. Morrison, co-inventor of the cotton candy machine, was a dentist.
GYakG TIL Without Quantum mechanics, we couldn't understand why the Sun shines. Quantum tunnelling allows the atoms to spontaneously overcome the electromagnetic repulsion between positively charged protons and produce the nuclear fusion, something the heat and pressure at the Sun core can't do at his own
awZRM TIL that koala bears survive off of eucalyptus by eating their mom’s feces first