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TIL that, by examining high-resolution satellite imagery with algorithms developed via trial-and-error, Sarah Parcak and her team have discovered 17 pyramids, 1,000 tombs, and over 3,100 settlements in Egypt alone. She now wants to crowdsource “space archaeology” to prevent looting of ancient sites.

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wLwZP TIL NASA is proposing to cool the Yellowstone super volcano by drilling down 10km into the super volcano and pumping in water at a high pressure. They then plan to use the extracted heat as a resource for power.
myAy TIL Loch Ness is so deep that it contains more freshwater than all the lakes in England combined.
DaLD TIL ‘Mortal Kombat’ was originally designed as a Jean-Claude van Damme fighting game. When he wasn’t able to commit his likeness, his character was changed by the designers to 'Johnny Cage’ and the MK franchise was born.
OolOX TIL In the US from 2014-2018, an average of 19,700 patients per year went to emergency rooms because of injuries involving grills. There’s an annual average of 8,900 home fires involving grills, hibachis or barbecues.
jNB4v TIL that hens store semen in storage tubules and can periodically release portions of it over the course of a month to produce numerous fertile eggs. If they happen to mate with a male they don't like, they can simply expel the entire sample and produce infertile eggs.