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TIL a plane landed so softly it broke the landing gear

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XEge6 TIL the Isle of Pabbay in the Hebrides was abandoned when every male resident of the island was lost at sea. Another of the Isles had all its sheep washed away by a wave
X0oGk Today I learned that the Singaporean government displaced the Orang Laut indigenous people of Pulau Semakau to build the Semakau Landfill
PYELn TIL that Fema sometimes measures disasters impact using a thing called the waffle house index. This is because there are so many of them and they have the unique ability to operate completely off gas for power/heat/cook. So if the waffle house is closed then its tantamount to complete disaster!
bQkp TIL that divers in 1900 discovered an ancient Greek shipwreck with an odd-looking bronze device on board. The device was later determined to be the world’s oldest analog computer, dating back to the 1st century B.C.E., thousands of years before similar technologies would be re-discovered
8apbP TIL Disneyland have cats called "cat members" who roam the park day and night keeping rodents away