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TIL that some Russian scientists are trying to restore a small region of Russia to the way it would've looked ~10,000 years ago, in a project called Pleistocene Park

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4enJ TIL that scientific pioneer Nikola Tesla was skeptical of Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. In 1892 he started work on his own “dynamic theory of gravity.” This was revealed when he announced the near completion of the project at age 81. He died 5 years later and the project was never found.
woJ4Y TIL: That the movie 'The Karate Kid' is a semi-autobiographical story based on the life of its screenwriter, Robert Mark Kamen. At age 17, after the 1964 New York World's Fair, Kamen was beaten up by a gang of bullies. He thus began to study martial arts in order to defend himself.
WkxVN TIL that since projectors cannot project the color black, they rely on an optical illusion using the darkness of a room to give the illusion of the color black.
V5m TIL there is a conspiracy theory that Egyptian treasures and tunnels were found in the Grand Canyon in 1909 and subsequently covered up by the Smithsonian. The area in question has numerous Egyptian landmark names and is currently off-limits to all hikers.
M5Ma TIL of the ADE 651, a fake bomb detector consisting a swivelling antenna mounted via a hinge to a plastic handgrip, requiring no battery, and supposedly charged by the user’s static electricity. It sold for $60,000 until its creator was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for fraud.