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TIL that an Apple engineer recreated a 2000-Year-Old Computer Using Legos

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ERZo TIL Bhutan is only carbon negative country in he world, the country emits around 1.5 million tonnes of carbon annually, while its forests absorb over 6 million tonnes. Bhutan is aiming for zero net greenhouse gas emissions, zero-waste by 2030 and to grow 100 percent organic food by 2020
p8jEZ TIL Teddy Roosevelt nearly died on several occasions while exploring the previously uncharted River of Doubt. After surviving a close call with a coral snake and an emergency surgery on his leg, he became delirious with a fever and repeatedly demanded to be left alone to die in the jungle.
0drKv TIL Nebraska has Admirals.
6Ed47 TIL that astronauts have reported the experience of seeing flashes while they are in space, even when their eyes are closed. These flashes are due to cosmic radiations affecting the retina.
OG9L7 TIL Leon Trotsky was murdered in Mexico in 1940 via ice axe by soviet agent Ramon Mercader. After Mercader was released from prison in 1960 he was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union medal and the Order of Lenin medal