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TIL Heaviest Animals to Wander the Earth
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TIL that the Golden Record sent to outer space by NASA also carries an hour long recording of the brainwaves of Ann Druyan who thought of many topics, including Earth's history, civilizations and the problems they face, and what it was like to fall in love, in addition to music and scientific images
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TIL that despite the common myth that the F-14 had the world's first airborne digital microprocessor, it may have been General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark., starting with the FB-111, then later the F-111D. Therefore beating the F-14 by several years.
lopx7
TIL that Perth is the most remote major city in the world. Perth is so isolated that it is quicker, easier, and cheaper to fly to Bali then to fly to the east coast. The nearest city of at least 100,000 people is Adelaide, around 1300 miles away.
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TIL The M.I.T Dean of Admissions lied about her credentials as a PhD for 28 years
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TIL a scientist got a call from his dad saying that the wetlands they used to visit together were extremely polluted and would disappear. He went back and created a recovery project. Paying 90% of expenses by himself he started to clean the lake, and 3 years later thousands of birds had returned.