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TIL The US has a cluster bomb which drops a fine cloud of carbon powder filaments, that destroys power stations and power lines

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rNlZo TIL the Avianca airplane crash of 1990 was caused in part due to the pilots not declaring a fuel emergency to the aircraft controllers. They never actually use the word "emergency," so they flew around in holding patterns and eventually ran out of fuel
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