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TIL Patton's solution to Hawaiian lava flows in the 40s-50s was to bomb them

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epxD6 TIL if space is infinite, or sufficiently large and uniform, identical instances of the history of Earth's entire Hubble volume may occur every so often, simply by chance. Physicists and Cosmologist Max Tegmark calculated that our nearest so-called doppelgänger is 10^10^115 metres away from us
5YkmQ TIL Telfar Clemens, the owner of the Telfar clothing brand, redesigned the uniforms for the White Castle fast food chain and dedicated the earnings to bailing out youths from Ryker's Island prison.
JXQj TIL The Cuyahoga River was so polluted it actually caught on fire. 13 fires later the gov’t was spurred onto to create the Clean Water Act and the EPA
d8pm9 TIL that my local library has a "library of things" including a Singer sewing machine, GoPro, SNES console, air fryer, Insta-Pot, camping tent, metal detector, and so many boards games and tools!
EgVMV TIL in 2014, the owner of Samuel's Sweet Shop died and his family struggled to keep the store open. So the owners friends, Actors Paul Rudd (Ant Man) and Jeffery Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead) bought it and have been co-owners ever since