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TIL that China began developing nuclear weapons and nuclear submarines before they even had the infrastructure to mine uranium

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ddpj TIL Canadians attempted to build a ship out of ice during WWII.
4Zj6 TIL Han Solo was frozen at the end of ESB because they didn’t know if Harrison Ford would agree to do the next movie.
16ZlP TIL a large network of small rock dams across a watershed can increase wayer quality and repair habitats (USGS Video)
M7jKa TIL Julian of Norwich was an English anchoress of the Middle Ages. Her writings are the earliest surviving English-language works attributed to a woman. They are also the only surviving English-language works by an anchoress
GlpE TIL if you cut a bulldog ant in two, the two halves immediately get entranced in a fight to the death.