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TIL the leadership of the Communist Party of China are mostly professional engineers, thus China is in fact a Technocracy.

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ep4mJ TIL Joseph Kerwin was the first American physician to go to space and had the first chance to study space medicine. Ready on Skylab with a minor surgery kit and drugs, a dislocated finger was the most serious ailment any of the three astronauts experienced when he was there
MePPW TIL the Faroe Islands and Greenland are allowed to import 5x more live mussels into Belgium than other countries/territories.
P1LQL TIL: that WD40 Literally stands for Water displacement 40th formula
b6QlE TIL of the USS New Orleans - During WW II a torpedo tore off the bow, they limped to a island, camouflaged the ship and made repairs using coconut logs resulting in her having to sail backwards to Australia to ultimately repair the ship.
xVYeD TIL that Chinese science fiction writer Chen Qiufan published a short story using paragraphs automatically generated by AI, based on his own writing. That story won him a literary prize in a contest moderated by an AI judge, over Nobel laureate Mo Yan