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TIL The world is running out of usable sand
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TIL: The Nullarbor plain: the great expanse of flat, arid, nothingness stretching across Western Australia & South Australia, many assume it’s naming is an indigenous word, but it is latin for “No trees”.
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TIL the opium factory in Ghazipur, India has been in continuous operation since 1820. Established by the British East India Company the factory supplied opium for the opium trade which led to the two opium wars, first in 1839 and 1856 over the forced importation of opium to China.
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TIL that it is possible to receive an Oxford degree with “congratulatory” honors; the work was so excellent that professors stand and applaud.
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TIL there's a debate about whether math was invented or discovered. Even though math is used to measure and predict and model, it's debated whether math is inherent to the universe or if math is just something we came up with to describe/measure/predict natural phenomenon.
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TIL about the musical genius Bob Milne who has the ability to hear every instrument individually in 3 different orchestras playing 3 different symphonies in his mind at the same time.