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TIL That Luxembourg is aggressively pursuing space mining
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TIL the city of Derinkuyu could accommodate 20,000 people and included a school, chapel, stores and more. All that was underground with an amazing system so that the oxygen and water would always be available.
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TIL that every year on 21 June, the BBC World Service makes a special broadcast to an audience of just 44 isolated Antarctic researchers, to celebrate midwinter.
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TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower graduated West Point in the middle of the class of 1915, which became known as “the class the stars fell on” because 59 members eventually became general officers.
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TIL that ReCaptcha is not just to detect if you’re human, but also used as a world wide collaboration to digitize books. We digitize about 2.5 million books a year with this method.
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TIL that during WWII it was discovered that several medications originally used to treat malaria are also effective in treating lupus. In fact, studies have shown that lupus patients on anti-malarials live longer than those who are not.