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TIL The Boeing 737 Jet Engine generates about 20 Terabytes of information per hour

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mW0P TIL a group of researchers using sonar to look for shipwrecks at the bottom of Lake Michigan found a Stonehenge-like structure 40 feet beneath the surface of the water - the formation could be as much as 10,000 years old.
AZk4 TIL Cashew nuts grow out of a “strange apple”
LQQRP TIL Salvador Dali collaborated with Walt Disney on a short animation in the 40s
YpQ1P TIL of the Massacre of St George's Fields 1768, where British troops fired on demonstrators who protested against the jailing of John Wilkes who severely criticised the King, killing 7 which led to multiple days of rioting and the threat of the abdication of the monarchy.
W7epo TIL Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal wrote a song for every day of the year (including February 29th), so that everyone would have a song for their birthday.