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TIL the newest and most advanced destroyer for the US navy is commanded by Capt. James Kirk

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R4W7 TIL A cat’s brain is more similar to a man’s brain than that of a dog.
ZKZ4 TIL experimental Thorium nuclear fission isn’t only more efficient, less rare than Uranium, and with pebble-bed technology is a “walk-away” (or almost 100% meltdown proof) reactor; it cannot be weaponized making it the most efficiant fuel source in the world
p8GRZ This photograph was taken with a simple 35 mm point-and-shoot camera in 1989 by the STS-29 crew aboard the space shuttle Discovery.
yGGp TIL the explosion from the first nuclear weapon test at Trinity was so bright that Georgia Green, a blind woman almost 50 miles away, asked her brother “What’s that light?”
W7dMY TIL at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, the opening night lights were automatically activated when the star Arcturus was detected. This star was chosen since its light takes ~40 years to arrive, so the rays landing on Earth had begun their journey ~1893, the year of Chicago's previous World's Fair