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TIL a F-15 took down a satellite.

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DN7D TIL that at an Amazon.com warehouse in Pennsylvania, workers were required to work – in some cases walking 15 miles a day – in 100+ degree heat. When the news broke, Amazon’s initial response was to keep an ambulance outside the warehouse.
dDeEK TIL about a "ghost boat" that disappeared in 2014 with 243 people aboard. No trace has ever been found.
GAmgg TIL that Persian is a pluricentric language, because it has 3 codified standard forms: "Tajik" -spoken in Tajikistan and partially Uzbekistan, "Dari" - spoken in Afghanistan and "Farsi" - spoken in Iran.
vPg6B TIL of Stubbins Ffirth. While in school he theorized yellow fever was not contagious, and was spread by heat and stress. He poured blood, vomit, and urine of the infected into his eyeballs and cuts and did not become sick, believing his theory to be true. It was later shown to be spread by mosquitos
P1pVV TIL The first product scanned with a bar code scanner was a packet of Wrigley's chewing gum. it happened on Marsh Supermarket, Ohio.