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TIL A man in India, Dashrath Manjhi carved a mountain for 22 yrs using a chisel and hammer and shortened the distance from 55km to 15km after his wife died in on the way to doctor !

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mY6o TIL that the Internet weighs the same as a strawberry: The weight of all the electrons in motion that make up the internet at any one moment is equivalent to 50 grams
5jEk TIL in Nov. 1944, Japan launched 9,300 bombs carried by balloons to the USA. These killed six civilians, crashed into a farm and caused a short circuit in power lines supplying electricity for the nuclear reactor cooling pumps in the Manhattan Project’s production facility.
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