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TIL Gamma-ray bursts release more energy in 10 seconds than our Sun in its entire life.

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xV6K0 NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter burned up in the Martian atmosphere because engineers failed to convert units from English to metric.
J1Qmk TIL that a Japanese pest control company built a grave in a 1,200-year-old graveyard in honor of all the termites it has killed.
x65J7 TIL that Canada produced over 800,000 military trucks during WW2, more than Germany, Italy & Japan combined. In 1945 the Canadian Army had 1 vehicle for every 3 soldiers (the US Army had 1 for 7), making it the most mobile army on earth.
vPKP8 TIL according to the King James Bible, Book of Revelations, the City of God is 1500 miles in length, width and height.
5VlJr TIL: Charles Darwin spent 6 months in South America looking for a lesser rhea (an ostrich-like bird) only to have one served to him for dinner. Halfway through the meal, Darwin realized what he was eating, gathered the parts and sent them to England for taxidermy and formal classification.