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TIL about Jonny Kim who is a Navy SEAL, a Harvard Medical Doctor, and a NASA Astronaut

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p8NDA TIL that Singaporean photographer Aram Pan has shot a 360° video of driving through the Streets of Pyongyang, North Korea with exclusive permission from the North Korean government
nVK9 TIL that the RIAA tried to sue LimeWire for $72 trillion in damages – an amount of money larger than the entire planet’s GDP.
b9990 TIL that after Spartacus’ revolt in 73 BCE, 6,000 slaves were crucified along a 120-mile stretch of road called the Appian Way. This equated to roughly 50 slaves per mile or roughly 1 slave every hundred feet. The mass crucifixion served as a deterrent to anyone else who thought to defy Rome.
78MJ7 TIL that during World War II, British intelligence spread a rumor that eating carrots improved night vision to cover up the fact that their pilots were using radar technology to target enemy planes in the dark.
Z871v TIL that these massive concrete acoustic mirrors, or “listening ears,” were built in England between the world wars to monitor the skies for the telltale sounds of airborne invasion.