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TIL The World's Biggest Plane Window Is 4.5 Feet Wide

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OGBZ7 TIL On July 26, 1931, a swarm of grasshoppers descended on Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota devastating millions of acres of crops. It was so thick that it blocked out the sun and one could shovel the grasshoppers with a scoop. Cornstalks were eaten to the ground and fields left completely bare.
0dAep TIL above Olive Riley, a blogger who posted over 100 videos on Youtube documenting her life through WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII. She was born in 1899 and died in 2008. Her videos are still public today.
XWMD TIL Jerusalem has been destroyed twice, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured and recaptured 44 times.
grEdy TIL learned that Lord Byron's daughter Ada was the first true computer programmer.
P1dww TIL that patients with carotid artery plaque in which micro or nanoplastics (MNPs) were detected had a higher risk of a composite of myocardial infarction, stroke, or death from any cause at 34 months of follow-up than those in whom MNPs were not detected.