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TIL in the 1960s the United States designed a practical plasma weapon for a space battleship

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LKBm TIL Wooly Mammoths survived on a couple of isolated islands in Siberia for up to 6,000 years after the species had gone extinct on the mainland.
VBBD8 TIL the price of carbon fiber for aircraft construction dropped due to innovations driven by the B-2 program in the 1980s and Boeing 777 work in the 1990s
ADOao TIL that Chiropractors are not a type of medical doctor, cannot practice medicine, and Chiropractic is a form of alternative medicine like acupuncture.
b9nMZ Today I learned that a backlight behind your TV can improve the the quality of the image and reduce eye strain.
M7Rmb TIL about Watermelon Mosaic Virus spread by aphids looks like someone carved crop circles on a watermelon