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TIL I learned the 27th Amendment, proposed in 1789, took over 200 years to be ratified; it was all but forgotten until a law student discovered it in 1982 and campaigned for its ratification.

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vmk7 TIL that in 2015, a CT scan revealed that a 12th century Buddha statue was actually the casing for a mummified human being.
JjL8 TIL Operation Northwood - called for innocent people to be shot on American streets; for a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, D.C., planes would be hijacked. Using phony evidence, all of it would be blamed on Castro, thus giving Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse for war.
ZnQ TIL that estimates for the amount of time Bill Murray’s character is trapped in the perpetual Groundhog Day range up to 34 years.
O5DX TIL Radiation is often measured as “banana equivalent doses,” where 1 dose is the amount of radioactivity in a banana.
kOZ55 TIL a cubic foot of air weighs .08 lbs. A cubic mile of air weighs around 6 million tons! Now, imagine all that moving across the sky - no wonder storms are violent.