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TIL of the Miasma Theory; the belief that the nighttime air was poisonous and carried deadly diseases.

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Dygg TIL that six Ginkgo trees survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima without deformities. All six are still alive today.
l7MrA TIL the first non-stop transatlantic flight happened in 1919. Two British aviators, J. Alcock and A. Brown, flew from Canada to Ireland, completing the trip in just under sixteen hours. On the way, they lost radio contact and heating, and flew through fog and snow, freezing in the open plane.
9mJG TIL: USAF Project Thor (aka “Rods from God”) consisted of dropping telephone pole sized tungsten rods from space. This would provide global strike faster than an ICBM, be nearly impossible to defend against, and would hit the earth at Mach 10 causing the devastation of a tactical nuclear warhead.
jNbRp TIL Queen Elizabeth II is likely a direct descendant of Dracula through her grandmother Queen Mary
0wbNL TIL Takijiro Onishi, Father Of The Kamikaze, Committed Seppuku To Atone For The Pilots He Helped To Kill