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Today I learned the Bonneville Salt Flats is up to 5 feet thick in some parts and is 90% common table salt, so theoretically if you need some salt…

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kNQ1 TIL The U.S. is still using floppy disks to run its nuclear program
aw8Mo TIL that a tribe from Napal risk their lives climbing the Himalaya Mountains to harvest honey made from the world's largest bees. The honey is collected from poisonous Rhododendron flowere. It provides a range of uses including psychedelic effects, as well as medical benefits.
bY1p TIL There could be as many as 40 billion Earth-sized planets orbiting in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars and red dwarfs within the Milky Way.
yQjKa TIL lawmakers in South Carolina wanted to raise a monument to honor black Confederate troops from South Carolina without knowing that there weren't any black Confederate soldiers in South Carolina.
aPRJ TIL that in 2014, more people died in Mexico as a result of armed conflict than in Pakistan or Sudan, both regions with active, military conflicts.