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TIL that a "mirror world" is a representation of the real world in digital form.

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QNGpp TIL A young man pinched his nose and clamped his mouth shut to hold in a forceful sneeze and ended up barely able to speak or swallow, with considerable pain. Air bubbles reached into the deep tissue and muscles of his chest and it took seven days for him to recover in hospital
ANXJB TIL that there was an urban legend about a Japan baseball team that had 18-year losing streak because in the 80's they threw the statue of Colonel Sanders into the river.
Brmjk TIL on the surface of Phobos there is a huge, freestanding boulder the size of a building, 85m tall and 90m across (279 x 300 feet). Called the Phobos Monolith, it is believed to be a piece of impact ejecta.
p8QJN TIL the Germans used remote controlled boats during World War I which they loaded with up to 1,500 pounds of explosives and drove directly at enemy ships.
GYYBE Blame the skirts.