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TIL that scientists have invented a new, lighter steel that’s as strong as titanium

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YkNZ TIL the UK’s military satellite family is called Skynet.
mk8E TIL that Lumber Liquidators, the USA’s largest hardwood flooring company, gets most of their wood from illegal sources in Russia that support organized crime and destroy the habitat of the Siberian Tiger
E0x TIL While awaiting execution, Nikolai Bukharin wrote to Stalin, “Koba, why do you need me to die?”. ‘Koba’ was Stalin’s revolutionary pseudonym, and Bukharin’s use of it was a sign of how close the two had once been. The note was found still in Stalin’s desk after his death in 1953.
PL9e TIL Forty Is The Only Number With Its Letters In Alphabetical Order
VM9y0 TIL in the Catholic church, if a child is in peril of dying during delivery, the midwife may perform an emergency baptism. If the midwife is in doubt if the child still lives, she baptises the child saying: "In case you are able to receive the baptism, I baptise thee in the name of the Father etc"