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TIL China built roughly one windmill an hour in 2009
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TIL the Apollo 11 mission was so risky, Nixon had a speech ready in case the astronauts were left to die on the moon.
1aKR8
TIL about Ferret-legging, where contestants shove live ferrets down their pants, and the winner is whoever can stand all the biting and scratching for the longest time. The ferrets must have all their 34 teeth and all their claws. Neither ferret nor contestant can be drugged in any way.
JYVrV
TIL that many US military officials, even war hawks such as Douglas MacArthur and several fleet admirals, opposed the usage of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki as unnecessary and cruel. Curtis LeMay even went as far as to say "The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all."
D18nY
TIL since The Lion King's tie-in book series, Six New Adventures, was released before the film's production ended, in the books Simba has a cub that he canonically does not have in the film's universe.
gMyX7
TIL in 2001, two Japan Airlines aircraft carrying a total of 677 people were sent on a collision course by a trainee controller and his supervisor. The two planes only took evasive action after visually spotting each other, narrowly avoiding collision by 135 meters (443 feet).