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TIL the Hoover Dam was made with enough concrete to build a highway from New York to California

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KOQLE TIL that US soldiers in Vietnam saw 6x more combat than US soldiers in previous wars, because helicopter deliveries drastically cut downtime spent waiting for supplies
GYGwE TIL that this was the first ever video of Youtube
9Y0lB TIL engineers plan to build a space elevator on the Moon tethered to a counterweight floating in a “Lagrange Point”, a pocket of gravitational equilibrium in our Earth-Moon system. We will sling rockets into space using centrifugal force at the top of the elevator.
16Ml7 TIL of David Icke, an English foorballer who upon meeting a psychic, proclaimed himself "Son of the Godhead", and began to write an extensive series of conspiracies around interdimensional energy beings, and half human reptilians of the global elite, called "Archons"
rNW7o TIL about “Yubitsume” or finger shortening......... a Japanese ritual to atone for offenses to another, a way to be punished or to show sincere apology and remorse to another, by means of amputating portions of one's own little finger.