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TIL the UK's famous COBRA national emergency response committee is named after the room in which it meets - the Cabinet Office Briefing Room A.

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4XlpX TIL of the condition Hikikomori which is seen among the youth of Japan and is also seen in UK, US, etc. Hikikomoris are reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from society and seek extreme degrees of isolation and confinement. It is estimated that there are about a million hikikomoris in Japan
oB5Rr TIL that the Wright Brothers tested over 50 different types of airfoils on their plane.
ANQ17 TIL that the late president of Nintendo Hiroshi Yamauchi owned the Seattle Mariners baseball team. He had never been to a baseball game before buying the team, and despite owning the Mariners for over 20 years, never attended a single one of their games.
kwQ1 TIL there is a gigantic water vapor cloud in space that holds 140 Trillion times the water in earths oceans.
9nmG TIL there is a mysterious sound in New Mexico called the “Taos Hum”. Only 2% of the population can hear it, and no one knows where the sound comes from.