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TIL that Tiny Hole in Airplane Windows is a safety feature called the breather hole is used to regulate the amount of pressure that passes between the window’s inner and outer panes

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XEeYk TIL there are tribes in India that use 500+ year old trees to make "living bridges" that can hold 50+ people at a time.
QJla TIL that now (2012) there are more than 3000 satellites orbiting the planet
165BO TIL about kugelblitz, a way to create a black hole with lasers.
LjRm TIL when the Church of Scientology first moved to Clearwater, Florida their plan was to take over the entire city. They were stopped by an expose in the St. Petersburg Times.
DBBJ TIL A guy named Joshua Abraham Norton declared himself Emperor of the United States and the citizens of San Francisco went along with it.