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TIL an Aboriginal man planted a flag on the cliffs of Dover in 1988 and claimed England for the Aborigines

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RvG6 TIL NASA wants to establish a floating cloud city to study Venus. The innovative concept involves helium-filled, solar-powered airships, which could contribute to humans permanently occupying the atmosphere of the hottest planet in our solar system.
LkV9P TIL that during the Cold War, USA considered airdropping enormous condoms labeled “Medium” into USSR, to demoralize them against an anatomically superior American Army.
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E1jad TIL 19-year-old Jonathan Burton was killed by his fellow passengers on a Southwest Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City after bursting into the cockpit in what investigators described as a case of "air rage." This incident occurred a year before 9/11.
YpvRZ TIL Keyhole Limpet Hemocyanin (KLH) is a protein derived from the blood of Megathura crenulata limpets and is critical for making medicines. KLH cannot be synthetically made, making the mollusks' serum worth $100,000 per liter.