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TIL the Vatican Church owns $30 billion in Australian real estate alone. Their global real estate wealth is incalculable.

Physicist Lise Meitner (1878-1968), who co-discovered nuclear fission, wasn’t permitted into her University’s chemistry lab lest she ‘set her hair on fire’.

TIL the Ice Bucket Challenge money produced a drug that extends ALS patients' lives by 7.5 months

Have you seen such a fast and agile robot? Moreover, his eyes are closed too! 🤖 Find more at https://t.co/gq3dJOC7Ox 🎥 Ghost Robotics #engineering https://t.co/7sYE6YQDtQ

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TIL about the False Vacuum Decay, one of the possible "endings" for the universe. If a small region of the universe's metastable vacuum reverts to a state of true vacuum, this "bubble" would spread at light speed erasing everything in it's path, which can happen at any moment.

Meet Cheetah-Cub-AL! You can easily take care of it at home. 🤖 Find more at https://t.co/gq3dJOC7Ox 🎥 @EPFL #engineering https://t.co/L0IaOj516p

TIL that at 23 years old, Isaac Newton went into quarantine due to the bubonic plague. During his time in quarantine, he proved the refractive properties of prisms, invented calculus, and was famously hit on the head by an apple.

1% of the ocean floor is covered in carbon-locking plants but they store carbon equivalent to 10% of the world’s 2018 C02 emissions. https://t.co/uJ1wqCAJ94

The bill would give crypto owners six months to rid themselves of any digital assets, after which penalties will come into place. 🤔 #engineering https://t.co/mhaOKuaenW

Wood can be so much more than "just" a building material. ⚡ #engineering https://t.co/WTkawlRyeG

The database is decentralized, and could help track gun owners in the US that are linked to crimes. 💥 #engineering https://t.co/PFrtZK5Fbh

Can you guess which is the strongest tool box? 🔧🔨 #engineering https://t.co/EiPypSJdlY

TIL the earliest credible evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree only appears in the late 15th century - by comparison, credible evidence shows Cocoa was cultivated some 5300 years ago

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