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TIL Germany tried brokering peace between the China and Japan during WW2

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yVJja TIL every featus starts of with a phenotypically female reproductive organ.
e0kDE TIL the highest artificial temperature recorded was when scientists at Large Hadron Collider announced that they had temperatures of over 5 trillion K. The team smashed together lead ions at 99% light speed to create quark gluon plasma–a state of matter that filled the universe after the Big Bang.
0wLGp TIL that in Poznan, Poland, eight clams get to decide if people in the city get water or not. They’re equipped with sensors atop them that trip the water supply pumps when they close due to detecting something unsafe in the water.
9E0Q TIL that King Tut’s beard was broken off by museum workers, who glued it back on. The mistake wasn’t discovered until months later.
yD5l TIL Geena Davis tried out for the 2000 Sydney Olympics in archery. She placed 24th out of 300 women, but did not qualify for the Olympics