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TIL backwards-facing airplane seats are 10 times safer, but passengers do not want them

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oBxw7 TIL There is company which is harnessing carbon from the air to make fuel for vehicles and aeroplanes. They hope to make it viable economically soon.
1Pw8 [TIL] Director James Cameron reached the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Mariana Trench. He is the first person to accomplish the trip solo. The data he collected resulted in interesting new finds in the field of marine biology, including new species of sea cucumber and squid worm.
GbW4 TIL April 7th is National Beer Day because this is the date in 1933 that FDR signed the law that lifted Prohibition
1ebP TIL those really thin fridge magnets are a special type of magnet called a Halbach array that has almost no magnetic field on one side - these were originally designed for use in particle accelerators.
DKeg TIL: The discoverer of a gene for Green Fluorescent Protein lost his grant, didn’t get tenure, left academe and was working at a car dealership in Huntsville, Alabama, when he learned that former colleagues had won the Nobel Prize using the gene he sequenced.