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TIL ~31% of Pakistani people aged 20-79 have diabetes

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kOPvg TIL A group of guys made a to scale model of the solar system in Black Rock Desert, Nevada. They felt that pictures online couldn’t capture the size of our solar system and they wanted to give an accurate example.
gLab TIL in 1995, the company Namco patented “auxiliary games” that play while the main game loads, thus forbid other game titles to have those. The patent expired earlier this year.
9E1G TIL if the space between the Earth and the Sun were filled with air, the Sun would be louder than a train horn. We, on Earth, would constantly hear it at 125 decibels – for comparison, a train horn 1 meter away comes in at 120 decibels.
nWXA7 TIL that Australia is wider than the moon!!!
X06Bk TIL that the word "Dreamt" and its variations, such as "Undreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends with the letters "mt."