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TIL there are 16.7 million IP addresses reserved specifically for amateur HAM radio operators

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E187o TIL that the Department of Energy will warn future humans 10,000 years from now about the presence of buried nuclear waste in New Mexico with 32 25-foot granite pillars. The pillars will be engraved with pictograms and warnings in many languages, along with buried magnets and radar reflectors.
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