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TIL: That the US Airforce has looked into research on: "How to use social media to control people like drones"

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D1oYp TIL of the Quetzalcoatlus northropi, one of the biggest known flying animals of all time. It stood about as tall as a giraffe and had a wingspan as wide as the length of a gas tanker truck.
jVjR TIL the US Govt has a “whole world” simulation, which they use to predict global reactions to geopolitical events
0bGR TIL The Murchison meteorite that crashed in Australia contains uracil and xanthine (guanine derivative) nucleobases (DNA components) that were proven to be of non-Earth origin/contamination due to the amount of carbon-13.
ep56J TIL Salvator Mundi (Latin for 'Savior of the World'), by Leonardo da Vinci, the most expensive painting of all-time, was sold for $450m to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The painting hasn’t been on display since 2017 and since late 2020 it has been in storage in Saudi Arabia.
My88 TIL the FBI placed a GPS tracking device on a student’s car for his Reddit comments