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TIL gene editing technology exists today
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TIL There is a park in Mexico where Mexicans can practice illegally entering the US in a simulation
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TIL in 2001, singer Aaliyah and her entourage insisted that their plane flew with roughly 700 pounds more than the planes maximum take-off weight. It crashed 60 metres from the runway, killing everyone onboard.
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TIL that Europeans starting using the term “Aztec” to refer to the people who lived around the city of Tenochtitlan, but that’s not what they called themselves. They referred to themselves as the Mexica.
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TIL there’s a series of 70-foot-long concrete arrows that bisects the country longitudinally all the way from SF to NYC, all designed to direct aerial traffic. They are from the pre-digital age and were installed by the Federal government in 1924, coupled with light signals to guide the way.