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TIL: Malaysia uses aerial loggers lowered from balloons

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16k9X TIL Fritz Lang’s film “Woman in the Moon” is often cited as the first occurrence in media of the "countdown to zero" before a rocket launch. It was so influential that the first successfully launched V-2 rocket at the rocket facility in Peenemünde had the Frau im Mond logo painted on its base.
OGMJR TIL of the Love Canal Chemical Disaster where they built a school on a chemical dump site and eventually 950 residents were evacuated in Niagara Falls, New York
omGR TIL you can set your Google accounts to self destruct after you die.
69XL8 TIL house cats are an invasive species
xVVpB TIL that Ptolemy XI Alexander II killed his stepmother, who was also his half-sister, aunt and wife.