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TIL that you can see China’s air pollution on satellite images.

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b6g9N TIL that the Fair Labor Standards Act -- which prohibits child labor in the United States -- does not apply to agricultural jobs. An estimated 79,000 children produce about 25% of the picking harvest in USA.
PY7yO TIL George HW Bush narrowly avoided being eaten by cannibals after his plane was shot down in WW2...
J19Bl TIL that when you sign a Starlink contract, you agree "that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities."
9mWQ TIL On 29 September 2008 from one single day $1.2 trillion had been wiped off from the United States stock market. It was the worst single day drop for two decades.
XE5Qj TIL that Orville Wright, of The Wright Brothers fame, met Chuck Yeager in 1945 and was still alive when Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947