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TIL a Finland library has a karaoke zone, where locals can reserve up to two hours in a booth using their library cards.

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grdab TIL Tonic water was initially marketed for its quinine (known to treat Malaria) but due to its bitter taste, British soldiers in India added Gin (which was rationed to them), thus creating the Gin and Tonic
Lkbmp TIL Crazy Train
nevN7 TIL that the US Air Force seriously considered and researched Nuking the Moon as a show of force after Russia launched Sputnik, but scrapped it at the last minute as they felt landing on it would be better received by the public.
0d6Vj TIL when Nobel Prize winning physicist Gerard 't Hooft had an asteroid named after him, he wrote a constitution for it's future inhabitants including articles that forbid use of imperial measurement units, outlaw the use of apostrophes, and limit the length of tax forms to one page.
GYJR5 TIL of Grabel's Law. It goes: "Two is not equal to three, not even for large values of two." Apparently, a professor named Grabel stated this during class, and his students christened it as Grabel's Law.