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TIL MIT engineers made the first-ever plane with no moving parts by using electricity to ionize air (2018).

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QJgJp TIL "decimation" was a method of punishment in the roman army, where a tenth of all soldiers in a group got executed by their peers.
kO561 TIL During President Kim Il-sung’s visit to Indonesia in 1965, President Sukarno showed Kim around the Bogor Botanical Gardens when the latter was smitten by an orchid. Sukarno promptly named the flower Kimilsungia and appointed it as the symbol of the eternal friendship between the two countries
6EPPX TIL about the actual creator of DOS (CP/M), desktop computers, Cd's and more; Gary Kildall, the forgotten father of the modern computer.
0wg8N TIL that Boric Acid, a common insecticide, is less toxic to humans than ordinary table salt
OK7X TIL that neanderthals didn’t rely on lightning strikes to make fire, instead, they used chemistry, by putting manganese dioxide on wood to lower the temperature required to create a flame.