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TIL that thunderstorms create antimatter

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Y7V1Z TIL that Mozart's opera-writer, Lorenzo Da Ponte, also was a professor of Columbia University and ran a grocery store in Pennsylvania
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95YD TIL The SR-71 did more than just take pictures. It could aim its radar 45 degrees to the side, map the terrain like side scan sonar… intercept enemy comm and radar signals, record its entire flight path with infrared cameras… to prove to countries that it didnt violate their airspace.
E10dd TIL the word for loving the smell of old books is Bibliosmia and that scientists can analyse the chemicals responsible for the old book smell to determine the books age.
4kljo TIL in 2020, archaeologists discovered a perfectly preserved food restaurant in Pompeii from 2,000-years-ago, complete with painted counters and traces of ancient meals like duck, snails, and goat stew still in their containers.