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PYMow TIL (Adjusted for inflation) Germany's military Budget in WW2 at its peak was smaller than the Current US Budget by about 33%.
xVDWo TIL Stephen Hawking saw a future in which the rich would use genetic engineering to make themselves smarter, more disease resistant and likely to live longer. “Once such superhumans appear, there will be significant political problems with unimproved humans, who won’t be able to compete", he wrote.
pVZN TIL: There is an uninhabited island in the Bahamas known as Pig Beach, which is populated entirely by swimming pigs.
OoprY TIL the Pony Express only operated for 18 months and carried mail from Missouri to California in 10 days. Each of the 186 stations were 10 miles apart where the rider would switch to a fresh horse
kxv5 TIL That on the summer solstice (today) the sun will line up perfectly with ancient structures all around the world!