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TIL the U.S. government is handing out free wasps to farmers for pest control.

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e0DQE TIL that modern gunpower contains it's own oxidizer for combustion, meaning you could fire a gun in space.
8xJL TIL that in lieu of money, Toyota donated efficiency to the Food Bank of NYC. Their experts cut wait times in a Harlem soup kitchen from 90 minutes to 18 minutes. In one Brooklyn warehouse, simply changing the size of boxes allowed workers to cut packing time from 3 minutes to just 11 seconds.
rRkXo TIL the first non-stop transatlantic flight happened in 1919. A modified WWI bomber with an open cockpit took off from Newfoundland, Canada with a crew of two. They almost spiraled into the ocean twice in heavy fog, had to climb onto the wings to clear ice, and landed in a bog in Connemara, Ireland.
kkA5 TIL that George Clooney was asked to play himself in a sketch for the Movie 43 (the gag was that Clooney is bad at picking up women), and Clooney replied “No fucking way.”
R7Gw4 TIL the probability of at least "Low-Level Intelligent Life" on other planets in the Milky Way is as high as 75%.