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TIL The US is “leasing” the Guantanamo Bay land from Cuba and writes them annual checks, which they do not recognize and have not cashed for decades.

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1yMW TIL that blue eyes do not have blue pigmentation - they look blue for the same reason that the the sky looks blue
7rRAZ TIL of a "Bezoar", the accumulation of ingested material such as hair, fur or fiber in the stomach that forms a large stone. Once prized as magical items with protective properties. There was a gold-framed bezoar in the Crown Jewels of Queen Elizabeth I as recently as 1962.
Y7Zvv TIL New York City is sinking 1-2mm each year due to the weight of its skyscrapers, worsening the effects of rising sea levels and flooding.
gr8dW TIL: In WW2 school children were used to create nearly 9,000 paper mache type balloons that were later used to complete bombing raids. The children were not told the purpose of their paper mache projects.
dm4E TIL Sturgeon’s law states that 90% of everything is crap. So 90% of experiments in molecular biology, 90% of poetry, 90% of philosophy books – and so forth – is crap.