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TIL that the USMC is investigating the use of drop pods from space to deploy to any place on earth.

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VBQ5k TIL that the President of China, Xi Jinping, has a salary of roughly $22 000 a year.
OoyAX TIL: How you smell rain. The main contributor is actinobacteria which when it decomposes leaves a byproduct called gesmin. When moisture or rain is added, they become aerosols and the tiny particles can be smelled miles away and contribute to the scent we associate with rain.
YpANB TIL of Castle Infinity, a video game that was shut down in 2000 but was brought back when the servers were recovered from a dumpster by a former player and programmer, who established a new development team and relaunched the game online.
e0x6k TIL that River Phoenix was good friends with the former guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers John Frusciante and that they spent the last few days of River’s life together on a drug binge.
epkA5 TIL in 1811, Frances Burney wrote a first-hand account of her mastectomy performed without anesthesia. “When the dreadful steel was plunged into my breast…cutting through veins, arteries, flesh, nerves…I needed no injunctions not to restrain my cries.”