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TIL about Project Loon which provides internet to devastated areas of the world via balloons in the Stratosphere.

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nevOB TIL L. Ron. Hubbard’s own son, L. Ron Hubbard Jr. was highly critical of Scientology and claimed black magic was the inner core of Scientology once stating, "my father did not worship Satan. He thought he was Satan."
Wlx4 TIL a man once accidentally exposed himself to a small amount of Plutonium which was traceable in his urine for the next 50 years.
9rmp TIL: The Nintendo Game Boy (1989) ran at 60fps
d8lEj TIL that “frito paws” or “corn chip paws” can be attributed to Pseudomonas and Proteus bacteria.
1adgO TIL Shorter workweeks lead to less smoking, thinner waistlines. For blue-collar workers, shortening the workweek by 4 hours lead to a 19% to 24% decrease in smoking. For white-collar workers, cutting the same amount of hours was associated with a 1.7% to 2.1% drop in BMI.