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TIL they have a solar-powered 3-D printer that prints glass from sand

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8eLxZ TIL that the distance flew in the Berlin Airlift was almost the entire way from the Earth to the Sun, totalled over 92,000,000 miles (148,000,000 km).
W709A TIL Vincent Price was "greylisted" under McCarthyism in the 1950s for having been a prewar "premature anti-Nazi", and after being unable to find work for a year, agreed to requests by the FBI that he sign a "secret oath" to save his career.
4XA7a TIL Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD, could not imagine anyone using the drug recreationally due to its intense and introspective nature.
e0don TIL the word ‘penguin’ is likely to have originated from the welsh word pen (head) and gwyn (white).
R7BdQ TIL of The Guardian Angels. A grouped formed in 1979 to combat violence in the NYC subway system. Trained in patrol & citizens arrest, members are told if other citizens' lives are endangered, they are allowed to do whatever is lawful and necessary. They can be spotted by their signature red beret.