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TIL Mount Mitchell, highest in the eastern US, is named after Elisha Mitchell, geologist and climber. He fell to his death at the nearby waterfall, now named “Mitchell Falls.”

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neKOY TIL Rocket Lab successfully tested their ability to catch a rocket falling back to Earth after launch. Completed in April 2020, the test involved the used rocket, a parachute, a helicopter, and a grappling device on a cable.
AD8Yw TIL the Winter Arctic Games are held biennially, featuring athletes from nine teams: Alaska (USA), Northern Alberta, Northwest Territories, Nunavik - Quebec, Nunavut, Yukon (all Canada), Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Russia), Sami people (Arctic Nordic countries, Kola Peninsula), and Greenland
rN0Gw TIL that, during the Cultural Revolution, ‘mango fever’ swept China after Mao regifted a box of the fruit to a propaganda team. A dentist named Dr. Han Guangdi claimed that the mango looked like little more than a sweet potato. He was found guilty of “malicious slander” and later executed.
NOJE TIL that in the late 80s the Dalai Lama said people might be reincarnated as AI; “I can’t totally rule out the possibility that, if all the external conditions and the karmic action were there, a stream of consciousness might actually enter into a computer.”
gMvQ7 TIL that if we keep our current population growth of 1.11%, in just 8604 years we would have used up all the particles in the entire observable universe just to make human bodies