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TIL A sailor in the British Royal Navy may only grow a beard if they can achieve a ‘respectably full enough beard’ after two weeks’ growth.

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dNxj TIL a proposal and petition on the White House’s website to build a Death Star that earned 30K signatures. It would have cost $850 quadrillion, and take 833,000 years. The White House said, “the Administration does not support blowing up planets”
N7vl1 TIL Uranus spins on its side. Most likely because something crashed into it.
NXMdN TIL about the graniteville train crash. In 2005 two Norfolk trains collided and released enormous amounts of toxic chlorine gas. 10 people were killed and over 250 had to be treated for chlorine gas exposure
VBXgp TIL that oceanic life benefits by dumping iron into it. Not only in artificial reef habitat in but also as a food source to phytoplankton. Phytoplankton can drastically reduce our carbon levels and restore species numbers up the food chain.
N7xLP TIL that there was a test several years ago where 70 undercover agents tried to sneak bombs or guns through US airport security; 67 succeeded