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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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6E9XQ TIL Italy's literacy rate did not cross the 50% threshold until the 20th century.
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nWJr9 TIL 26 children and a bus driver were kidnapped and held for ransom in an underground trailer in California in 1976
J1wVv TIL Lockheed Martin have filed for a patent on a small fusion "engine" intended to provide propulsion for a future aircraft design. "Provided herein are various leptonic power sources, leptonic control systems, and leptonic-powered engines."
Dvov TIL Richard the Lionheart had 3,000 captured Muslim prisoners (including large numbers of women and children) taken to a hill. There, in full view of Saladin and his army, they were beheaded and disemboweled. Even in an age of atrocities, this was an act of exceptional and shocking barbarity.