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TIL: There is a new plant that can suck carbon dioxide at a rate of about 1,000 tons a year

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6EEVw TIL Muon Tomography used to find a new chamber in the Gaza Pyramid was also used by Toshiba and the US Los Alamos Nat. Lab. to assess the situation inside the damaged reactors at Fukushima Daiichi
6EPLZ TIL the town of Valmeyer, Illinois was so prone to flooding, that after a flood in 1993 the community decided to move the whole town two miles away onto a bluff to prevent further flooding.
PWlZ TIL that a cat named Simon served on a Royal Navy ship in 1949, and received a medal for surviving injuries from a cannon shell, raising morale, and killing off a rat infestation during his service. He died of an infection from his wounds and hundreds attended his funeral.
6PEJ TIL that the world’s most powerful commercially available flashlight can be used to start fires.
e9WD TIL that Georgi Dimitrov, accused of conspiring to burn the Reichstag German in 1933, successfully defended himself in trial, including grilling Hermann Göring on the stand